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NEW YORK. 



SEASON OF 1895 



OUTING 



TRIPS and TOURS, 



A GUIDE TO 



Summer Pleasure Trips 



AND 



Excursion Routes and Resorts 



PUBLISHED AS A SUPPLEMENT TO 



BULLINGER'S MONITOR GUIDE, 



Vol. XX\'III., No. 26, June 24 to June 30, 1895 



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E. W. BULLINGER, PuiiLi.siiER, 



No. 75 FULTON STREET, NEW YORK CITY. 




Entered according to Act of Congress, in tlie jear lfe9J, by E. W. Uuiuxgee, in the omce of the Lilir..i ,..i» . i Congress, .it Washington. 



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T^I-IP I ATT^Pr? R\in OF A CONTRACT IS VASTLY MORE 

1 I IL L/1 1 I LrV LiiLI important than the front end. 

Five dollars saved on a premium is a trifle ; five thousand dollars lost by bad 
security w^hen the claim falls due is not a trifle. 

Always try to find out which is likely to live longest, you or the company you 
insure in ; and therefore whether the company is insuring you, or you are insuring 
the company. 

A thing you can't get, after you have paid for it, isn't cheap at half a cent. 

The Travelers 

OF HARTFORD, CONN. 

Is the Oldest Accident Company in America, the Larg-est in the World, and 
has never reorg-anized, or frozen out any of its claimants. 

CLEARS ITS BOOKS OF JUST CLAIMS BY PAYING THEM IN FULL. 

Rates as low as permanent security of receiving the face value of the policy 
will justify. 

Charges for certainty, and guarantees certainty. 

Policies world-wide, and as liberal as consistent with the Company's keeping alive 
to pay claims at all. 



Assets, $17,664,000. 



Surplus, $2,472,000. 



PAID POLICV-HOLDERS, $27,000,000— $2,1 5 1,000 in 1894. 



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A. Day at West Point 54 

-A. Day under the Palisades 63 

Along the Bronx Tvrenty Cents 118 

Among the Green Hills 71 

An Outing on a Coaster 39 

A Nursery of Romance— Eighty-four Cents 106 

A Sand-bound Coast Twenty Cents 95 

Bay Ridge and Fort Hamilton —Twenty 

Cents 100 

Bergen Point and Port Richmond — Thirty 

Cents 101 

Berg'enflelds and Cresskill -Eighty-five Cents 111 

Camping Out 67 

College Point and Jamai'?a— Forty Cents 115 

Coney Island, Rockaway, <Sc 91 

CJresskill and Yonkers Eighty-five Cents 105 

Crotona Fark-Ten Cents 90 

Excursion Routes 7 to 19 

Elizabeth River - Fifty Cents 108 

Englewood and Coytesville— Fifty-five Cents.. 120 

Fairlawn and Maywood Ninety Cents 94 

Fairmount and Cherry Hill— ^ixty-five Cents.. 115 
Fanwfod and Murray Hill -One Dollar and 

Twenty-five Cents 101 

F'ishin'-with a Tripod— Ninety Cents 110 

F'ive Good Bicycle Trips 84 

Pordham Heights and West Farms-T^wenty 

Cents 96 

Fort George-Ten Cents 90 

Fort Lee and Sh-^dy Side-Thirty-flve Cents... 99 

Fresh Air and Exercise 88 

Guttenburg and Fort Lee— Twenty Cents 96 

High Bridge— Ten Cents 90 

High Bridge and Fort Washington— Fifteen 

Cents 96 

Hills of the Hackensack Fifty Cents 112 

How to See the W^hite Mountains 60 



Johna Twenty Dollar Vacation 57 

Kings Bridge and Fort Qeorere-Twenty Cents 120 

List of Resorts, Routes, &c 7 to 19 

Long Sails on Ferries 99 

Lost in Jersey jqq 

One Day Outings by Steamboats lOl 

On Land and Sea Fifty Cents 102 

Outings by Street Railways 90 

Paterson and Little Falls - One Dollar, en 

Cents. J2Q 

Pelham Battle Ground- Seventy Cents I13 

Pleasure Bay and Seabright-Fifty Cents 115 

Railroad Travel for Pleasure 25 

Riverside Drive a d Park -Ten Cents 90 

Rochelle Park and Passaic-Fifty Cents Ill 

Saturday Afternoon Outings 91 

Gchraalenburg and Cherry Hill-Eighty Cents 105 

Summer Resorts, List of 7 to 19 

Sunday Outings gj 

Tarrytown and Ardsley Eighty Cents 94 

The Beautiful Isle of the Sea Twenty Cents.. 93 

The Idyllic Connecticut 31 

The Pleasures of Cycling 81 

Three Days in the Catskills 43 

Thr ugh Hell Gate— Twenty Cents 98 

Tourist Books 2I 23 

Tourist Routes, List of. 7 to 19 

Travel Afoot 75 

Van Cortlandt and Fordham Twenty Cents. 109 
Van Cortlandt 1 nd Mount Vernon — Thirty 

Cents H5 

Van Cortlandt ParK— ihirty-flve Cents 116 

Washington Bridge— Ten Cents 90 

Watkins Glen 43 

With an Oar or two— Fifty Cents 104 

"W'ith Horse and Carriage . 50 

With the Shad Hunters— Twenty-five Cents .. 97 



INDEX OF ADVERTISERS. 



Albany Day Line 6 

Atkins & Durbrow 42 

Casco Eay Steamboat Co 36 

Catskill & New York Steamboat Co 42 

Central Vermont R.R 10 

Chicago Milwaukee & t. Paul Ry 40 

Citizens Steamboat Co 22 

Crouch & Fitzgerald inside front cover 

Delaware & Huason R.R 30 

Fall River Line 20 

Gaze, Henry & Sons, Ltd inside front cover 

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34 

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14 

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Haeger Storage Warehouses 

Hartford & New York Transportation Co. 

Highland Beach Improvement C^ 

Homer Ramsdells Line 

Hotel Castleton 

Hotel Champlain 

Hotel Sewaren 

Hubbe, M 

Hudson River Day Line 

International Ste mship Co 

Xeatmg Wheel Co 

Kennebec Steamboat Co 

Kingston Line 

Lehigh Valley .R 



Luqueer, R. S. & Co outside back cover 

Maine S eamship Co 36 

Mannahassett House 32 

McLeod, Ward & Co 14 

iv.ontauk Steamboat Co 16 

Newburg, Orange Lal-e&Waldn Electric R.R. 8 

New Haven Steamboat Co ,....,,.,,,......... 34 



New London Steamboat Co 26 

Newport & Wickford R.R. & Steamboat Co.. 34 

New York & Monmuth Park S eamboat Co . 32 

New "i^ork <& Sea Beach Ry 18 

T ew York, Lake Erie & Western R.R 44 

New York & Long Branch Steamboat Co 92 

New York, New Haven <s Hartfori R.R 28 

Old Colony Steamboat Co 20 

Palatine Insurance Co 4 

Palisades Railway 64 

Parker Bros 10 

Peoples Line 26 

Portland Steam Packet Co 36 

Providence & Stonington Steamship Co 24 

Quebec Centra. 1 y 14 

Quincy, J. E 82 

Ramsdell's line 8 

Red Cross Line 28 

Roiner & Iremper Steamboat <o 14 

Sands, Alfred B. & Son 38 

Saugerti s & JS/ew York Steamboat Co 64 

Sea Beac'i Route 18 

Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad 92 

Steamer Little Silver 32 

Stewart, T. M 64 

Stonington L ne JJ4 

The Wheelmens Protective Co 82 

Trask, Spencer, & Co 4 

Travelers Insurance Co 2 

Twin Mountain House 32 

West End Hotel and Cottages 32 

Yarmouth Steamship Co. and Map 16 



Spencer Trask & Co., 
BANKERS, 



27 & 29 Pine Street, 



NEW YORK. 



STATE & JAMES STREETS, ALBANY. 



Bonds and Stocks Bought and Sold on Commission. 



CORRESPONDENCE INVITED. 



INVESTMENT SECURITIES 




Trustees in the United States: 

General LOUIS FITZGERALD, Hon. ASHBEL GREEN, Hon. CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW. 

Assets in United States, $2,389,092.60. 

Net Surplus, January 1st, 1895, $62 1,645.88. 




Joint Manaerers, 



■WILLIAM BELL, 
WILLIAM "WOOD, 

WM. M. BALLARD, Branch Secretary, 



21 NASSAU STREET, 

Equitable Building, NEW YORK. 



STOP IIKRE, A MOMENT ! 
THE PLir.LISIll'.R WANTS A WORD Willi ^'()U!! 



THIS is ii r(Miiiirka})l(' book. its puri)osf nnd its coiileiits arc uiiiquo ; somcwiiat (n-i.i,niial in 
purpose, entirely so in conti'iits. 

Its purpose is tiie Iiojte of inducinu- liic men of New York City to appreciate the fact, that 
upbuildiug material for tiu^ vigor of niiiul and body so necessary nowadays, and so lamentably 
lacking, can be found within a few hours, minutes indeed, of their otliccs. The exhilaration of an 
inspiring saunter near the heart of nature, and the intoxication of a dralt of pure and ozone laden 
jiir, are near by every one. Every reader of this book, and there will Ijc thousands of them, sliould 
profit by some of the opixirtunities shown lierein ; leave for a few hours, at least, the feverish atmos- 
phere and crushing burdens of their daily life, and plunge into the pure air, on water, or shore, 
or in woods. Rejuvenation, new vigor, a stronger manhood, will be the certain result. That this 
idea is underlaid with good conuuon sense, saying nothing about science, is evidenced by the fact 
that many of the brightest of our journals have taken up the subject ; notably the Outlook, the 
Brooldi/n Eagle, the Oiitinf/ Maf/azine, as well as many of oin- largest and most influential New 
York Dailies and Monthlies. The outing idea has come to stay, and will certainly exert a great 
influence on our urban life and habits — the sooner, the better. 

Its contents are intended to excite the "Outing" spirit. It takes but a glance to see that they 
are in captivating shape. It would be diflicult to do it better, and yet there is not a line of text 
or picture that will compare for a moment with the reality. There are suggestions fitting the contents 
of all purses. The cheaper are pure and sweet and delightful, in spite of cheapness ; the more 
expensive are not better because of their cost. A delicious, untainted taste of the very breath of 
heaven will be found in the twenty cent outing, as well as in the dollar one. With a few unim- 
portant exceptions, all of the articles herein are actual experiences, and the illustrations are not fancy 
sketches but, as shown at each, they are from ])hotographs of the jilaces named. Everything 
portrayed is within reach of anybody. 

Advertisements are placed among the reading matter, as is done by the daily papers. It makes 
one feel cool and fresh to even read some of the "Line" advertisements. Remember that they appear 
herein for the purpose of securing your patronage, you may be certain that they will try to deserve it. 

Tourist tickets, covering extended trips or tours, are issued by all the large lines. Do not attempt 
to make up an extended trip for yourself, without tirst asking the lines what they can do for you. 
The tourist-trip tickets secure many advantages that regular tickets do not cover, and if you have 
in mind some special trip, do not fail to consult the List of Resorts, &c., on pages 5 to '20, and ask 
advice of the Lines named therein, at the places you wish to include in your route. 



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THE PALACE IRON STEAMERS 

"NEW YORK" AND "ALBANY 

OF THE HUDSON RIVER DAY LINE. 

(ALBANY DAY LINE.) 



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Leave New York, Desbrosses Street 8.40 A.M. 

New York, West 2 2cl Street, N. R 9.00 " 

Albany, Hamilton Street S.30 " 

DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY. 



THE DAY LINE STEAMERS IS THE DIRECT ROUTE 

TO THE RESORTS OF THE CATSKILLS, 

And in connection with the Rail Lines, via ALBANY, forms the 
Ideal Tourist Route To or From 

Saratoga, Lakes George and Champlain^^^^^==^_3 

The Adirondacks, Montreal, Toronto, St. Lawrence River, 

Thousand Islands and Niagara Falls. 



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Send Six Cents in Stamps for Copy of *' Summer Excursion Book." 

TRIP on one of these famous steamers, on the noblest stream in the country, offers rare 
attractions. Their great speed, fine orchestra, spacious saloons, private parlors and luxurious 
accommodations in every respect render them unexcelled. 

The steamers "New York" 
and "Albany" are the fastest 
ever built, and are unrivaled in 
point of elegance, comfort, and 
the quality of the service in 
every respect Being constructed 
exclusively for summer tourist 
travel, and carrying no freight, 
they have the lightness, grace 
and beauty of a yacht, and are 
known the world over as the 
finest vessels afloat. 




C. T. VAN SANTVOORD, 

General Manager. 

F, B HIBBARD, 

General Passenger Agent. 

Desbrosses Street Pier, 
NEW YORK. 



Anthony's Nose, The Highl\nds. 



TOURIST AND EXCURSION ROUTES 

To Summer Resorts, 



Tl..,re are many lin<.s that are not n-prvH,.,,!,-,) in tl„- lolUuvin^- lint; thus., that are ,..cl..d,-,i pay lur the r-prcH.-ntation f..r 
the purpose of ol.taining the custom of tlie iiatrons of Bui.i.incjer's Monitor Guide. 

The majority ol tlie Lines represontcd, issue " Iland-l.ooks " or "Guides," containing descriptions ot their ronles 
places of interest, maps, historical facts concerniuK the principal points, prices f>n- ^^ Round Trip'' Excursions, and many other 
Items of interest, many of the works heing beautifully illustrated and printed. These publications are for Gratuitous IHsIri- 
hution, in some cases merely the postage being asked, and a list of tliem will be fouml on pages IX and -J.:',. 

Tlif Selection of Places, <fc., in the folloiving list, was mnilf lit/ tlif Advertisers, not hy the nMisher. 



Adirondacks Albany Day Line, page (i 

Citizens Line, page '.!'.i 

" Delaware & Iliidson K.K , page :!(l 

l'co|iles Line, page '.^(i 

....N. Y , Lake Krie * Western Hv, page 44 

Agawam, Mass Kali Kiver Line, page -Jl) 

Albany, N.Y Albany Day Line, page G 

l'eO|jles Line, page lili 

Alburg Springs. Vt Citizens l,iiie, page 2:i 

" Fall Kiver Line, page 'Hi 

Peoples Line, pa^e ii(j 

Alexandria Bay, N". "ST Albany Day Line, page H 

' TecipieM Line, page'.fi 

" ....N. Y., Lake Krie & We.-stcrn l!y page 4 4 

Allentown, Pa ..Lehigh Valby U.K., page 12 

Alton Bay, IJ.H Kail KiveV Line, [lage 20 

....N.Y., New Haven & ILuttonI K.K. , page 2.S 

I'i'ovideiice Line, page 24 

."tonington Line, page 24 

Annapolis, N.S ■ ■ .■^iHiK- Routes as given for "St. John, N.H." 

" Red Crohs Lii e, pat e 2.'< 

" Varnioiith .'steamship Co., page Hi 

Ansonia, Conn N. v.. New IIa\eii A llart. R. R. page 28 

■' New llaveii .Steamboat Co., page M 

Arkville, N.Y Same routes a.s for " I'liieoicia. N.Y." 

Arlington, N. Y Slaten Islainl Ferry & Railio.d, pige 112 

Arlington, Vt CitizeiM Line, page 22 

'■ Peoples Ivue, page 2'> 

Arrochar, N. Y Staten Island Keny & Railroad, pnge '.I2 

Arrowsic Bridge, lV[e..Saine Routes as for "Augusta, Me." 

Asbury Park, N. J Steanu r Little Silver, page 32 

" N. Y. a Liii.g l?raii(h Stc'auiboat Co., page !I2 

Ashland, Wis Clmago, Mil.& St. Paul Uy., iutge40 

Athens, N Y Oatskill Line Sieamers. page 42 

Auburn. N.Y Lehigh Valley K.K . jiage 12 

Augusta. Me ' ail KiveV Line, page 20 

" International Steamship Co., jiage '.'A 

Kennebec Steamboat Co., page S 

• X. Y., New Haven & Hartford R.R., page 28 

Maine Sleaiusliip Co., ])age ;ili 

" Portland Stream Packet Co.. page '.W 

" Provideiue Line, page 24 

'' Stoiiiiigtoii Line, page 24 

Au Sable, N.Y Same Routes as for "Adirondacks. N.Y^'' 

Au Sable Chasm. N.Y. ...Same as for " Adirondacks, N.Y." 
Avon Springs, N.Y N.Y., Lake Erie* Western Ky, page4l 

Ballston, N. Y Albany Day Line, page 6 

" Citizens (iiiie, page 2i 

" Delaware & Hudson K.R.. page ;h(I 

" I*eoplen Line, page 211 

Bangor, Me Fall Riv-r Line, page 20 

" Maine Steamshin Co., page 'M\ 

" ....New York, New Haven & ILirtlbnl R.K., page 2S 

" Portland Steam I'acket Co., 1 a e : 1; 

" Providence Line, page 24 

" Stonington Line, page 24 

Bar Harbor, Me .Same Routes as given at ".Mount Desert, Me." 

Barnstable, Mass Fall River Line, page 2o 

Barrytown, N.Y.... ..Saugerties & New York S li. Co., [jage (14 

Bath, Me Same Routes as given at ''Aiigiiti. .Me." 

Beaver Dnm, "Wis Chicago, Mil. & St Paul Ky., page 4o 

Belfast, Me Same Routes as given at " Bangor. .Me." 

Bellows Falls, Vt Kail River Line, page 20 

'■ Central \ermoiit K.K., page Hi 

" Delaware & lludscui R.R.. page ;iii 

" Hartford Line, p»ge 22 

" New Haven SteamboHt Co., pate 34 

" N. Y., New Haven & Hart. R.R., page 28 

" Providence Line, page 24 

Stonington Line, page 24 

Albany Day Line, page <1 

Citizens Line, page 22 

Peoples Line, page 20 



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New Haven Steamboat Co., 1 age ;{4 

Berwick, N. S Yarmouth Steamship Co., jiage Iti 

Bethel, Me ...Same Routes as givm at " Glen House, N. H." 





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LOWEH AU SAHLIC I'ONU ; ADIKOMJACKS. 



Bethlehem, N.H Same Routes • s given for '• F ibyans." 

Bethlehem, P,a Lehigh Valley R R.. page 12 

Big H'llow, N. Y-Same Routes as given at "Phienicia. N.Y." 
Big Indian, N.Y. .Same Routes as givi n at " Pho-nicia. N.Y." 

Big Stone Lake Chicago, Mi!. & St Paul Ry.. jiage 40 

Block Island, R.I ^all River Line, page 20 

N. Y.. New Haven & Hart K.K. page 28 

" New London Steamboat Co., page 26 

Blue Hill, Me .Same Routes as given at "Mount Desert. Me." 

Blue Mountain Lake Sami Routes as for " Adir iidacki '■ 

Bluff Point, N.Y Delaware A Hudson R.K., page 30 

" Albany Day Line, page 6 

" //olii Cliampliiin, page 30 

Boothbay Island Same Routes as given at ".\ugusta. Me." 

Boston, Mass Albanv Day Line, page d 

" Citizens Line, page 2i 

" Fall River Line, page 20 

" International Steamship Co, page 34- 

" . ..New York, New Haven & Hartford R.R.. page 28 

'* Providence Line, page2t 

" Stonington Line, page 24 

Branchport , N . J....N V. & Long Branch Steamboat Co., page '.!•> 
Brandon, Vt Same Routes as given for '• Bellows Falis. Vt." 

Bras d'Or Lal^e, C. B Red Cross Line, page 28 

" YHrmouth Ste nisliip Co.. pa^e IG 



DON'T HESITATE to ask any name in the above list for particulars of Rates. Routes, Trains 
they will be glad to give such information — mention BULLINGER'S GUIDE. 



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RAMSDELL'S DAILY LINE 

For Newburgh, Cranstons, West Point, Cold Spring, Cornwall, Fishkill, 

An(i places on the Newburgh, Orange Lake & "Walden Electric E. E. 




For Passengers and Freight. 
The New and Elegant Iron Screw Stear 



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^ "Homer Ramsdell" and " l^ewturgh," 



THE FASTEST PROPELLERS ON THE HUDSON RIVER, 
Leave IVew York from IVew Pier 34, foot of Franklin Street, daily, 
except Sunday, at 5.00 P.M.: (Sundays at 9.00 A.M., foot West 
133rd Street, 9.20 A.M.) Leave Xewburgh, daily, at 7.00 P.M. 

The Tip-trip Sunday Morning- affords one of the pleasantest and most 

= select Excursions of any line runnin'^ Irom New York Fare 50 cents. 

And in connection with the Newburfrh & Walden Electric Railway, gives to 
the New Yorji public somethin;? novel in the way of an Excursion through the most charming parts of Orange County, 
to Orange Lake and Walden, making a most delightful trip. 

And an unusually pleasant trip is offered by the Mary Powell, leaving New York every afternoou except Sunday, and re- 
turning by this line from Cranstons, West Point or Cornwall, tickets for which are for sale on the Powell. 

This Line offers unsurpassed service in every particular. Large and luxuriously furnislied saloons and staterooms, heated 
by steam and lighted by electricity. The trip by tlie up-steamer affords a most eiijoyalilc sail up the Hudson in the early 
evening, past the wonderful Palisades and through tlie far-faineil lliglihinds. the most l>oautitiil part of tlie river. 



I Newburgh, Orange Lake & Walden Electric R. R. Co. 



A NOVEL AND CHARMING EXCURSION 

Through the Beautiful Wallkill Valley, 

By RAMSDELL'S STEAMERS from NEW YORK to NEWBURGH, 

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iti thence by new and beautiful Electric Cars, through the historic City of Newburgh to 



continuing on over the hills of tlie Wallkill Valley to the quaint and picturesque Town of 

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Passengers can leave New York, on Sundays, from foot of Franklin Street at 9.00 A.M., or 
foot of West ISSrd Street at 9.20 A.M., and land in Newburgh at l.OO P.M., where connection 
IS made at boat landing with Klectric Cars. Return trip of boat is made at 7.00 P.M., giving 
passengers best part of the day to enjoy the delightful outing, and landing them in New York 
by 1 l.OO P.M. 

Hound trip from New York to Orange Lake, SI. 30, to Walden, $i.50; tickets for sale on boat. 



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HERE WILL YOU SPEND YOUR VACATION ? 

TRY PICTURESQUE MAINE. 



THE KENNEBEC STEAMBOAT COMPANY and its connections 
reach IDEAL SUMMER RESORTS in PICTURESQUE MAINE. 

IT is the most popular as well as the cheapest route to all places on the Kennebec River, and to 
the many seaside resorts in the vicinity of Boothbay Harbor. Passengers obtain a nights rest, 
arrive at destination early the following morning, avoid the heat, dust and noise attendant upon railway 
travel, and enjoy the scenery on the North Shore and the Kennebec River, which is second to 
none in the country. 

Our new Summer time-table and Folder, which will describe more fully than ever the delightful 
summer resorts reached by this line, will be ready for distribution about June ist. 

Persons who desire to learn where to go for an ideal summer outing can do so by sending name and address to 

FREDERICK A. JONES, Agent, Lincoln Wharf, BOSTON. 



TOURIST AND EXCURSION ROUTES. 



Brattleboro, Vt Same Routes ii.s for " Bcfllows Falls, Vt." 

Srewster, Mass Kail Kivn- \An,-, page 20 

Bridgeport, Conn- N. Y., Now llavon & Hart. R.ll., pagu 28 

Bridgeton, Me Same Koiiten as (iivcn at " I'oitlaiid, INIe." 

Bridgetown, N. S Vaiinoiitli Steamsliip Co., paf;o IC. 

Bridgewater, N. S Vurmouth Stcamsliip Co , pasu 16 

Brighton Beach Sea lieach Route, jiage 18 

British Provinces Kali River Line, page 21 

" luternatical Steamsliip Co., laije ;i4 

" Maine Steamship Co., i>ago 30 

" N. Y., New Haven .t Hart. R.R., i)ape 2« 

I'rovidi'iiee hiiie, page 24 

Red Cro-s Line, page 28 

Stoningtoii Line, page 24 

Varnioutli Steamship Co., page 1(! 

Broadhead, N.Y Same Routes as for " IMnenieia. N.Y." 

Bryant's Pond, Me Same Routes as for " Porthmd, Me." 

Sucksport, Me Same Routes as liiven at '• IJangor, Me." 

Buffalo. N.Y Kehigh Valley R.R., page 12 

N. v.. Lake Krie & Me.stern Ry, page 44 

Burlington, Vt Alhany Day !,ine, page (; 

" CeLtra! Vermont R.ll., page 1(1 

" (jiti/.ens Line, page 22 

" Delaware & Hudson R.R., page iil) 

" Harif.rd Line, page 22 

" Fall River Line, page 2(1 

" New Haven Sle unhoat Co., page :i4 

" N. Y., New Haven & Hart R.R., page 2S 

" Peoples Ijine, page 2() 

" Providence Line, page 21 

Stoningtou Line, page 24 

Fall River Line, page 20 



Buzzard's Bay.. 



Cairo, N.Y Same Routes as given at "Catskill, N.Y." 

Calais, Me Same Routes as given at " Kastport, Me." 

Caldwell, N Y Same Routes as given at " Lake George." 

CalllCOOn, N. Y N. Y., Lake Erie & Western Ry, page 44 

Cambridge Springs, Pa..-. N.Y, Lake Erie & Wes. Ry, pag<' 44 

Camden, Me .^ame Routes as given at " I'Jangcn-, Me." 

Campbell Hall, N.Y....N.V., Lake Erie & Western Ry, page 44 

Campobello, N.B Same Rcmtes as given at " Kastport, Me." 

Campton, N.H '^ame Routes as given for " Plymoutli.N. II." 
Cap-^ Breton, N.S .Sanie Routes as given for " Halifax, N.S." 

Cape Cod Points, Fall River Line, page 20 

Casco Bay, Me Casco Bay Steamlioat Co., page 3(J 

Castlne, Me Same Routes as given at "Mount Desert, Me." 

Catskill, N.Y ...Albany Day Line, page 6 

" . Catskill Line Steamers, page 42 

Catskill Mountains, N.Y All^any Day Line, page ti 

" Catskill Line Steamers, page ^2 

*' Kingston Line, page 14 

" Saugerties & New York S. B. Co., page (54 

Center Harbor, N.H---Same Routes as for " Alton Bay, N. H." 
Charlottetown, P. E.I. ..Same Routes as for " Halifax, N.S." 

" Red Cross Line, page 2^ 

Chateaugay Chasm, N.YSame Routes as for" Adiroudacks." 
Chateaugay Lake, N.Y. Same Routes as for "Ad.rondacks." 
Chr.utauqua Lake .N. Y., Lake Erie & Western J{y, page 44 
Chazv Li-ake, N. Y...Sume Routes a> given for " Aillrondacks." 

Chicago. Ill Lehigh Valley R.R., page 12 

Christmas Cove, Me.. Same Routes as given at "Augu8ta,Me." 

Clayton, N. Y Alhany Day Line, page fi 

" Peoples Line, page 2(j 

Cochecton, N. Y N. Y., Lake Erie & Western Ry, page 44 

Cold Spring, N. Y Ramsdells Line, page 8 

Conesus Ijake, N. Y N. Y., Lake Erie & Wes. Ry, page 44 

Coney Island Sea Beach Route, page 18 

Connecticut Biver Hartford Line, page 22 

" N. Y.. New Haven & H.rt. R R., page 28 

Cooper, N. J ..N. Y., Lake Erie & Western Ry, page 44 

Cooperstown, N.Y Albany Day Line, page 6 

" Delaware & Hudson R. R., jmge 3(» 

" N. Y., Lake Erie & Western Ry, page 44 

" Peoples Line, page 26 

Cornwall, N.Y Kingston Line, page 14 

" N. Y., Lake Erie & Western Ry, page 44 

"' Ramsdells Line, jiage 8 

Cottage City, Mass Fall River Line, page 20 

" Maine Steamship Co.. page 36 

Coxsackie, N". Y Catskill Line Steamers, page 42 

Coytesville, N. J Palisades R.R., page 64 

Cranston's, NY Catskill Line Steamers, jiage 42 

" Ramsdells Line, page 8 

" Kingston Line, page 11 

Crawford House, N.H...Saine Routes as for "Fabyan"8,N.H." 
Crawford Notch, White Mountains. 

Same Riiutes as given at " Fabyans. N.U." 

Cromwell, Conn liartford Line, page 22 

" N. Y., New Haven & Hartford R.R.. page 28 

Cushings Island, Me Casco Bay Steamboat Co., page 36 



Dakota Chicago, Mil. & St. Paul Ry., page 40 

Deep River, Conn Hartfurd Line, puge 22 

Deer Isle, Me ...-'anie Routes as given at " .Mount Desert, Me." 
Dellsof the Wisconsin. ...Chicago, Mil. & St. Paul Ry., page 40 



Deposit, N.Y..... N. v.. Lake Eri,. & W.st.rn Rv, page 44 

Derby, Conn....New York. New Haven & Hartford R.K.', pag.- " 

,,,■„,„ ^T o :. ^''"^ ""^'"i' Sttanil.oat Co., i.age :'.4 

Dlgby. N.S .Same R.Mites as giv.n for " St. .lohn.s, N.B." 

T-.;„„ -^ „ Varmonth Steamship Co., pai;c 16 

Dingmans Ferry, Pa N.Y., Lake Erie & WeV Ry" \,±.. 4, 

^''^''iy''^?*''^' W-H.-Same Routes as given tor ••■FahyanH " 
Durham, N. Y Same Routes lus given at "Catskill, N. y!" 

East Haddnm, Conn Hartford Line, rag,, 22 

Eastham, Mass Fall River Line, page "o 

Easthampton, Mass.... .Same RonteH .w "Sprli.glield, M„K« " 

Eastport. Me ....Fall River Line; page 

I, Maine Steamship Co., page 

„ ■■•• International SteaniHhip Co., page 

^_ ..New York, New Haven A Hartford R.R., page 

,, Providence Line, page 

■ci„„* -iTr 1. Stonlngton Line, page 

East Wareham. . Fall River Line page 

East W^mdham. N . Y. .Same Rout. « as given for 



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Edgartown, Mass Fall River Line, page 20 

" Maine Steamsliip Co., page 36 

Edgewater, N.J Palisades R.H., page (14 

Elizabethtown Same Routes as givi-n at " Adirondacks, N.Y'." 

Elmira, N.Y Lehigh Vallev K.R., page 12 

" N. Y., Lake Erie & Western Rv., page 44 

Elm Park, N. Y Staten Island F<-rry & Railroad, page !I2 

Erastina, N. Y Staten Island Ferry & Railroad, page 92 

Esopus, N.Y Kingston Line, page 14 

Essex, Conn Hartford Line, page 22 

Essex, N. Y Same Koiites as !.'iven at "Adirondacks." 

Eureka Springs iSaegertown), Pa. 

N. v., Lake Erie A Western Ry, page 44 

Evergreen Island, Me Casco Bay Steamboat Co., page ,30 



Fabyans, N.H Alb. ny Day Line, page 6 

" Central Vermont R.R , page 10 

" Citizens Line, page 22 

" Delaware & Hudson R.R., page 30 

" Fall River Line, page 20 

" Maine Steamship Co., page 30 

" .. ..N. Y., New Haven .t Hartfonl R.K.. page 28 

" New Haven Steamboat Co., page :i4 

" Peoples Line, page 26 

" Portland Steam Packet Co., page 30 

" Providence Line, page 24 

" Sioniiigton Line, page 24 

Falmouth, Mass >'all R'ver Line, page 20 

Fishkill, N.Y Albany Day Line, page 6 

" Ramsilells Line, page 8 



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Pitchburg, Mass Full Rivpr I,iiio, piigo 2(i 

^'^' N. Y., New Ilitveii A Ilaitfonl Il.U., page 1^8 

I'rovidciict' Lino, piige 24 

Stiiiiin{;t<iii Line, |i:igo 21 

Five Islands, Me Saiiie Routes as given at "Aii;;iista, Mi." 

Florida, N. Y N. Y., Lake Kile A W .f-tcin Kv, pa;;c 14 

Fort Ijee, N . J I'alisaii.H K.K., page lU 

Fort "Wadsworth Stat.-n Island Ferry A K.K.. page 92 

Franconia Mountains.N.H fam.- as given for " Kaiiyans." 
Fromenac, Minn riiUago, Mil. A st. I'ani Ky., page 40 

FryeburK, Me SSanu- Routes iiairlven at "Glen 'li)use. N.II." 



Gardiner, Me Same ItonteH as given at " Augusta, Me." 

Garrisons, N.Y Albany Day Line, page i; 

Geneva, W.Y Lehigh" Valli\v K.i;., page 12 

GermantOW", N.Y Catskill Line Steamers, page 42 

Gildersleeves, Conn ILirttonI Line, page 22 

Glastonbury, Conn ..: llarttonl Li. e, page 22 

Glen iiOUSfc, N.H Fall Kiver Line, page 2u 

" N. Y., Nttw Haven & Hart. R.R., page 28 

" Maine Steamship Co., page 30 

** Portlanil Steam I'ackil (\<., page :'.i; 

'* I'roviiienee Line, jiage 24 

Stoiiingtoii Line, page 24 

Glen Onoko, Pa L.liigh Vall.y U.K., page 12 

Glen Summit, Pa Lehigh Valley K.U., page 12 

Glens Falls, N.Y Alhany Day Line, page i) 

Citizens Line, page 22 

" Delaware & Hudson R.R., page 'M> 

Peoples Line, page 21) 

Goodspeeds, Conn llarttor<l Line, page 22 

Gorham, ISf.H... .>ame Routes as given at "(Jleu House, N.II." 

Goshen, N. Y N. V., Lake Krie &. Western Ky, page 44 

Grand Gorge, ]Sr.Y...Sainf Rout.s as for " IMuenicia, N. Y." 
Grand Manan. N.B Same Routes as for " Kastport, Mo." 

Great Bamng'ton. Mass..N.V.,.\'. liav.A Uart. R.R.,page 2S 
Great Diamond Island Me...Casidiia> St'miioatCo, page :!ii 

Greenfield, Mass ■■. ^alMe Routes as given at "Springfield." 
Green Mountains.. Sanu' Routes as given at •'liurliu^tou, Vt." 
Greenport, L.I Montauk Stramhoat Co., s.-(. page \(> 

Greenwood Liake, N.Y N. V., L. !•:. & Wes. Ry, page 44 

Greycourt, N. Y N. v.. Lake Krie & Western Ry, jiage 41 

GriSlns Corners, N.Y..Sano> Routes as triven at •I'ha'iiiciH." 
Guymard, N. Y N. V., Lake Erie & Western Ry, page 44 

Hadley (Luzerne), N.Y-.Same Routes as ".\dirondaeks,N.Y." 

Hadlvme, Conn Hartford Line, page 22 

Ha Ha Bay, Que Same Routes as given at "Quebec. ' 

Haines Falls, N.Y S^mie Routes as f .r "Catskill Mountains." 

Hales Eddy, N. Y N. V., Lake Erie & Western Ry, page 44 

Halilax, N. S Fall River Line, page 

'' luteruatioual Steamship Co., page 

" viaine Steamship Co. page 

" N. Y., New Haven & Hartford R.R., page 

*' I'oitland Steam Paek^t Co., p^ge 

'* Providence Line, page 

" Red Cross Line, l>age 

" Stoniugton Line, page 

" . . Yariiioiitli Steamship Co., page 

Hallowall, Me Same Routes as gi>en at " Augusta, Me." 

Hammondsport, N.Y....N. v.. Lake Erie & Wes. Ry, iiage 41 

Hampden, Me Same Routes as given at "Bangor, Me." 

Hancock, N. Y N. Y., Lake Erie & Western Rv, page ■14 

Hankins, IN . Y N. Y., Lake Erie & WestiMU Ry, page 44 

Hantsport N. S Yarmouth steamship Co., page 

Hartford, Conn N. Y., New Haven & Hart. R.R. page 

" Hartford Line, jiage 

'' . New Haven Steamboat Co., page 

Harwich, Mass Fall River l,ine, ])age 

Havana Glen, N.Y N.Y., Lake Erie A Western Ry. jiage 

Haverhill. N.H Same Routes as given at "Fabyans." 

Hawley, Pa X Y., Lake Erie A Western Ry, page 44 

Hanson ville, N. Y Same Routes as for"Cat8kiU Mountains." 
Heron Island. Me .Same Routes as given at "Augusta, Me." 

Hewitt N.J N. Y., Lake Erie & Western Ry, page 44 

Highgate Springs, Vt Same Routes as for " Builingtou." 

Highland Beach, N, J.. ..Highland Reach Imp't Co., [lage 

" " Steamer LittleSilver,page 

" " N.Y. & Loiii; RrHiieh Steamboat Co., page 

Hig-hland Mills, N.Y N.Y., Lake Erie A Wes. Ry, i.iige 

Highlands of Navesink St<amer Little silver, page 

" " N.Y. A Long Rraiich Steamboat Co.. page 

Highlands of the Hudson Same Routes as given at 

" West Point, N.Y." 

Highpoint, N. J N. Y., Lake Erie A Western Ry, page 

Holyoke, Mass Hartford Line, page 

" New Haven Steamboat Co , page 

" N. Y., New Haven A H«rt. R.R. page 

Honesdale, Pa N.Y., Lake Erie a Western Ry, page 

HoOSick Falls, N.Y Albanv Dav Line, page li 

" Citizens Line, page 22 

■' PeO|des Line, page 2li 

Hotel Champlain, N . Y... Delaware & Hudson R.I!., 1 age 30 

'■ ADai.y Day Lite, page 6 

" ffoff'l'(Vi(('itiiihiiii. page ,S(l 

Houghton Farm, N.Y....N. Y.. L Erie A Western Ry. page 44 
Howells, N. Y N. v.. Lake Erie A Western Ry, page 44 



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Hudson, N.Y Albany Day Line, 

Tx , ' „ . Ciitskill Line Steaiin-rH, 

Hudson Heights, N.J I'uli.snd.H R.R. 

Hudson River Liimdings Albany Day Line, 

',', II Culskill Line SteainerH, 

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Hunter, N.Y-.Same Routes as given at" Catskill Mountains." 

Hyannis. M'SS Fall River Line, page 20 

Hyde Park, N.Y Kingston Line, page 14r 

Indiiin Rock, Me. ..Same R.>ules as for " Raneeley Lakes. Me." 

Intervale, N.H Same Routes as given at "Fabyans." 

Iron Piers, Coney Island Sea Reach Route, page 18 

Isle of Shoals, N.H-. Same Routes as for " Portsmouth. N.H." 
Isle Springs, Me ■ .. Same Routes as given at ' Augusta, Me." 
Ithaca, N.Y Lehigh Valley R.R.. page 12 

Jackson, N.H ..Same Routes as given at " N<'rth Conway, N H." 

Jamestown, N. Y N. Y., Lake Erie A Western Ry, page 44 

Jefferson, N.H Same Routes as given at " Fabyana." 

Jonesport. Me Same Routes as for "Mount Desert, Me." 

Kaaterskill, N. Y.Same Routesasfor "Catskill Mountains." 

Katama, Mass Fall River Line, page 20 

Keene, N.H Fall River Line, page 20 

" New Haven Steaniboai Co.. page 34 

" .. ..N Y, New Haven & Hi»rt. R.R,, page •/» 

" Providence Line, |)age 24 

" Stonington Line, page 24 

Keeseville, N. Y . Sitne Rout s as given for " Adirou acks." 



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Kingston, N. Y AUmny Day Line, p.ipo 6 

Kiii^;Mloii Line, piUfo It 

Kiskatom, N.Y Same Koutes us given tor "Catskill, N.Y." 



LiackawrtXen, Pa ..N. Y., LaUc Eiio & Wistcin Ry, paRc 44 

Lacoilia, N H Simir Rmites as given at " I'lvnioiilli, N. II." 

Lake CUamplain, N. Y,, an follows: 

Alliiiiiy Day liiuc, pasre t>. 

Ce iial Ve inont R.K., jia^je 10. 

Citizens Lino, page li^. 

Delaware & IIn<lson R.K., pajje 3(). 

N. Y., Ne« ILiven & Uartl'ord R.K., page 28. 

New ILiven Sleaiiilnial Co., page M. 

Peoples Line, page 20. 

Lake George, N. ¥ ; Albany D»y Line, page G 

Citizens Line, page ii-J 

" Delaware & lltulson R.R., page 30 

Peoples Line, page 2fi 

Lake Meniphreniagog, Vt...Sanie Itontes as for- Kaliyans." 

Lake Minnewaska.N.y.. Same ivouttsa loi '-Lalu M. honk." 

Lake Mohonk, JV. Y Alliany Day Line, page C 

Kinjistoii Line, pate 14 

" .\ v., Lake Krie & Western Ry, page 44 

Lake Placid, N. Y Sanu' Routes as given for' Ailiiondacks." 
Lake Pleasant, Mass.. N.V.. New Ilaven & Mart.R R, page 28 
Lake Richardson. Me San.e Routes as tor "Rangeley Lakes" 
Lake St. John, Que.. Same Roules as g ven for "qnebec." 
J-iake Unibagog .■^amc■ Routes as given at " Rangeley Lakes." 
Lake "Winnipiseogee, N.H Same Routes as for 'Alton Hay." 
Lamoine, Me .;-ame Rouies as given at "Mount Desert, Me." 

Lancaster, N.H Same Routes as given at ' Kahy ns " 

Lee, Mass . ..New York, New Ilaven A Ilartfonl R.R., jKige 2S 
Lenox, Mass .... N. Y., New ilaven & Ilartfoni R.R., page 2b 

Lily Dale iCassadaga Lake), N. Y . 

N. v., L.ike Krie & Western Ry, page 44 

Linlithgow N.Y Catskill Line Steanr rs page 42 

Linnekin, Me Same Routt s as piveu at ".Vugusta, Me." 

Lisbon, N.H Same Routes as given at " Kabvans." 

Litchfield, Conn ..N V , New Haven A llarttonl R.R., page 28 

Little 1 iamond Island, Me.CHSco Ray sfmiioat Co, page m 

Little Silver, N.J Steamer Little Silver, page 32 

" ... N. V. & Long Branch Steamboat Co., page 92 

Littleton, N. H Same Routes as given fo ' Kabyan.s." 

Little Tupper Lake.. Sam<'as given tor' Adironiliuks." 

Long Branch, N. J steamer l>itlle Silver, page 32 

" N V. & Long Branch Steamboat Co., page '.12 

" Wr.s-/ Kik/ Ilnttl, page 32 

Long Eddy, N.Y N. Y., Lake Erie & Western Ry, page 44 

Long Island, Me Caseo Bay Steamb<iat Co., ))age 36 

Long Lake, N.Y Same Routes as given afAdironilacks." 

Loon Lake, iM. Y SHme Routes as given at " Aoirondacks." 

Lordville, N.Y N. Y., Lake Erie k Western Ry, page 44 

Lunenburg, ISl .S Same H.mtes as given at " llarifa,x, N.S." 

Luzerne, N. Y Same Routes as given at " Adiroudaeks." 

Lyme, Conn II«rtford Line, page 22 



Machiasport, Me Same Routes as for "Mount Desert, Me." 

Maiden, N. Y Catsktll Line St ar. ers. page 42 

Manchester. Vt Same Routes as given at " Burlington, Vt." 

Manchester-by-the-Sea..Same Routes as for " Boston, Mass." 

Manhanset, L.I Montauk Steau.boat Co., p>ige 16 

Manhattan Beach Sea ISeach Route, page 18 

Manitoba Chicago, Mil. & St. Paul Ry., page 40 

Maplewood, N. H Same routes as given for " Kabyans." 

Marlboro, N.Y Kingston Line, page 14 

Marthas Vineyard Fall River Line, pag 20 

" >Liiue Stiamship Co.. page 36 

Mast Hope. Pa N. Y., Lake Erie k Western Ry. page 44 

Mauch Chunk Leligli Valley R.li., page 12 

Mechanicville, N. Y Albany Day Line, page r, 

" Delaware & Hudson R.R., page 30 

'* Peoples Line, page 26 

Meriden, Conn New Haven Stc^amboat Co., jiage 34 

'■ Hartford Line, pag- '22 

" N. Y., New Haven A Hart. R. R. page 2S 

Middle Haddam, Conn Ilartfbri Line, page 22 

Middletcwn, Conn ILuttoid Line, page 22 

" New Havtn Steamboat Co., pagi^ 34 

" N.Y., New Haven A llMrt. R.R., nage 28 

Middletown, N. Y....N. Y., Lake Erie & Western l!y, page H 

Milbridge. Me Same Routes as for " .Mount Desert, Me." 

Miltord, Pa N. Y., Lake Erie & Western Ry, page 44 

Miltord Springs, N. H Same Routes as for "Alton Bay" 

Milton, N.Y Kingstiui Line, page 14 

Minneapolis, Minn Cliicago, Mil. k St. Paul Ry., page 40 

Mmnetonka, Mmn Chicago, .Mil. & St. Paul Ry., page 40 

Miquelon Re<l Cross Line, page 28 

Moncton, N.B Red Cross Line, page 28 

Monmouth Park, N.J Steamer Little Silver, page 32 

Montelac Park, N. Y....N.Y., Lake Erie & Western Ry, page 44 

Montg: mery, N.Y. ..N.Y'., Lake Erie & Western Ry, page 44 

Monticello, N. Y N. Y'., Lake Erie & Western Ry, page 44 

Montpelier, Vt Same Routes as for " Burlington, Vt. ' 



Montreal, Canada All.anyDay Line, page 6 

,, Citizens Line, page '22 

„ Delawun- & lluilson R.R., page 3i' 

,, ; I'ail River Line, page W 

,j ^'''"' lla\eh Steafnl>r)ai Co., page 34 

„ -N- Y..NewHaven>marlf(,rd K H., page W 

,, Portland Steam Packet Ci. , ptge 36 

„ Peoples Line page 26 

,, Providence Line, page 2\ 

T,, ^ ,, Stoningtoii Line, page '24 

Monument, Mass Kali River Line, page 20 

Moosehead Lake, Me. ...Same RouteH as for "Angnsta .Me" 
Mount Kineo House,Me..Saiiie Routes as for "Augusta ,Me " 

Mount McGregor, N.Y...Sa routes as given at ' 

•■ .SaiMlojra, N.Y." 

Mount Mansfield, Vt Smue Routes as " Itiirlinglcui Vt " 

Mountninville, N. Y N.Y. , Lake Erb- i Wes. Rv, page 44 

Mount Desert, Me Fall River Line, page 20 

,, Maine Steamship Co , page .36 

,, ...N.Y., New Haven A Hart. R.R., page '28 

,. Providence Line, page 24 

,, Portland Sto m I'acket Co., page .36 

Stciiiiiigton Liin-, page 24 

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Mount Pleasant, N.Y-Same Routes as for "Phoenicia, N.Y.' 
Mount Washington, N. H..Same Routes a.s for " Fabyans.' 

Mouse Island. Me -■"ame Routeaas given at ".\ugusta, .Mr-.' 

Murray Hill, Me Same Routes as given at "Augusta, Me." 



Nantucket Mass Fall River Line, page '20 

" Maine Steamship Co., page 36 

Nanuet, N. Y N. Y., Lake Erie A Western Rv, page 4-i 

Narragansett Pier, R.I N.Y., n.H. k Han. R.R., page 28 

" Kail River Line, page '20 

'• Providence Line, page '^4 

" ... ^ Stoningtoii Line, page 24 

Narrowsburg. N. Y..N' . Y'., Lake Erie a Western Ry, page 41 
Naugatuck, Conn ...N.Y. , New Haven & Hartford R.R., page i^ 

'■ New Ilaveu Steambr)at Co . page 34 

New Bedford. Mass Fall River Line, page 20 

New Brighton, N. Y-.-Staten Island Ferry & R.R.. page 92 

•* Ilot'l Castletim, page ifi 

NewBrunswick,...Same Routes as given at "St. .John N.B." 

" Red Cross Line, page 28 

Albany Day Line, page 6 
..Ramsriells Line, page & 

N.Y'., Luke Erie A Wrstern Ry., page 44 

Kingston Line, page H 

Same Routes as given at " Portland, Me." 

H...Same Routes as'tor "Portsmouth, N.H." 

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Newcastle, Me- 

New Castle, N. 

New Dorp. N. Y Staten Islan<i Kerry k Railroad, page 

Newfoundland points in general 

RrMi Cross Line, page 

New Hamburg, N.Y Kingston Line, page 

New Haven, Conn ...N.Y., New Haven k Hart. R.K , page 
" New Haven Steamboat Co., page 



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THROUGH PULLMAN SLEEPING CARS BETWEEN SPRINGFIELD AND QUEBEC WITHOUT CHANGE, 
Leaving New York by N. Y., New Haven & Hartford R.R., 4.00 P.M. train, change to through 
Pullman at Springfield, running through to Quebec, arriving there l.OO P.M. following day. 

No other Route can offer such good facilities to the traveling Public. 
Ask for tickets via the QUEBEC CENTRAL RAILWAY, and for full information address: 
FRANK GRUNDY, J.H.WALSH, P. R NEILL, R. M STOCKING, 

General Manager, General Passenger Agent, Traveling Passenger Agent, District Passenger A^ent 

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KINGSTON LINE. 

An enjoyable evening sail up the Hudson, a good nights rest, breakfast on Boat If desired, then feeling 
In a frame of mind to appreciate the beauties of the grand Scenery of the 

CATSKILL MOUNTAINS. 

This is the only Line making' direct connection at Rondout with Express Trains for all Stations on the Ulster «fe 
Delaware, Stuny Clove and Kaaterskill Kailruads. Cars run direct to Steamers Dock. 

STEAMERS 

JAMES W.BALDWIN and 

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From foot of West 1 0th St., 

Daily, except Saturday and Sunday, at 

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making the followini: landings : 

Cornwall, Newburgh, New Hamburgh, 
Marlborough, Milton, Poughkeepsie, 
Hyde Park, Esopus and 
RONDOUT. 

EXCURSIOIV TICKETS at very low rates to all points in the Catskill .Mountains. 

C^~ List of boarding houses in the Catskills, ami all other infoiiuatiou forwarded on application to Romer & Tremper 
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" ^ew UiiVfii Sti'amliuat Co , jiago 

" StoHingtoii LiiKs pane 

Newport, R.I t"'>Il lUvcr Liim, jiajte 

" Newport Si Wiikfonl U I;., pa^e 

N.Y., New Haven A llaitford K.R,. pag • 

Newport, Vt Same Routes n« given at " Kiilijiii 

Niagara Falls, N. Y Allumy Day l.ine, page 

" DelavmeA IIikIhiiu H.R., page 

" . ...N. v., l.aUi' Ki ii' A Western Rv, page 

•• Lehigh Vallej R.R., page 

** I'eoplos 1/inp, ,iage 

North Adams, Mass Albany Day Line, page 

" Dchiware A IIuiIhoii R.R., page 

" N.Y., New Haven A Ilartlord R.R.,page 

" Peiiplew Ijne, page 

" (Via Troy) Oitizfim Line, page 

North Conway, N.H Fall River Line, page 

" Maine Sleainship Co., page 

*' N. Y.. N. llav. A Hartlonl R.R., page 

" ... I'ortlanil Steam I'acUct Co , ]iago 

" I'rovidence Line, page 

** Stonington Line, page 

North Creek, N. Y Alliany Day Line, page 

" Delaware A Iluilnon R.R., page 

*' Citizens I, me, page 

" I'eoiilin Line, page 

North Falmouth Kal River Line, liage 

North Hampton, N. H... .Same Routes as tor "I'ortsmont 

North Harwich Kali River Line, page 

Norwich, Conn N.Y., New Haven & nartf<iril R.R.. page 

Nova Scotia, l'rovinceof.....Sauie Routes as lor " Halifax, N 

" Red Cross Line, page 

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Oakland Beach, R. I l'roviden<e Line, |)age 21 

" Stonington Line, ]iage 24 

Oak Bluflfs, Mass Kail River !,ine, page 20 

" Maine Steauishi|i Co., page ;!6 

Oak Hill, N. Y Same Routes as given at "Catskill, N.Y.'' 

Ocean Excursions Maine Steamship Co., page :i6 

" Red Cross Line, ]iage 28 

" Varinouth Steamshiji Co., jiage 10 

Ocean Point, Me. ..Same Routes as given at " Augusta, Me." 

Oconomowoc, Wis Chieago, Mil. A St. Paul Ry , page 411 

Okoboji, Iowa Chicago, Mil. A St. Paul Ry., [.ago 40 

Old Orchard Beach, Me. ..Same Routes as given at 

■ Portsii th, N. H." 

Onteora Park, N.Y Same as "Catskill Mountains." 

Orange, N. J N. Y., Lake Krie & Western Ry. page 44 

Orangeburg, N. Y N. Y., Lake Erie A Wes. Ry. iiage 44 

Orange Lake, N. Y Kamsdeli s Line, page s 

" Newl)urg, Orange Lake A Walden Ry, page 8 

Orient, L.I Montauk Steamboat Co., page 16 

Orleans, Mass Fall River Line, i)age 20 

Osprey Beach, Conn. ..New London steamboat Co., phge 26 



Palenville, N. Y Albany Day Line, page 6 

" Catskill Line Steamer, p«ge 42 

" ...Saiigertiis A N. Y. Steamboat Co , page 64 

Parkers Glen, Pa N- V., Lake Erie & Wes. Ry, page 44 

Parkers bead, Me Same Routes as given at '•Augusta, Me." 

Paul Smith's, N.Y Same Routes as for "Adiromh'cks. ' 

Peaks Island, Me Caseo liay steamboat Co., jiage :',*i 

Pemaqxiid Harbor, Me., 

Same Routes as given at "Augusta, Me." 
Perth Amboy, N. J..Stateu Island Ferrv A Riilroad, page 92 

" Lehigh Valley R K., page 12 

PictOU, N. S Same Routes as given at " Halifa.x, N.S." 

Phoenicia, N. Y Aliiany uay Line, page 6 

" Kingston Line', |iage 14 

Pigeon Cove. Mass Fall River Line, page 20 

Pilley's Island, N. P RedCio^s Line, pasre 2S 

Pine Hill, N.Y-. Same Routes as given tor ■• Phoenicia, N.Y." 

Pittstield, Mass Albany Day l^ine, page 6 

" ..N. Y., New Haven A Hartford R.R., page 

PittSton, Pa Lehigh Valley R.R., ])age 

Plattsburg, N.Y Albany Day Line, page 

" Citizeng liiii", page 

'• Delaware A Hudson R.R., [age 

'• Peoples Line, page 

Pleasure Bay, N.J ..Steamer Little Silver, jiage 

" N.V. A Long Braneh Steamboat Co., page 

Plymouth, Mass .Fall River Line, page 

Plymouth, N. H Fall River Line, page 

N. Y., New Haven A Hartford R.R., page 

" Providence Line, ])age 

" Stonington Line, page 

Pocasset, Mass Fall Rivei Line, page 

Poland Springs, Me Same Routes as for " Portland, Me." 

Pompton, N. J N. Y., Lake Erie & Western Ry, jiage 44 

Pond ilddy. Pa N. Y., Lake Erie & Western Ry, page 44 

Popham Beach, Me. Same Routes as given at " AuKUSIa, Me." 

Portage, N. Y N. Y.. Lake Erie A Western Ry, page 44 

Port Hawkesbury, N.S Same Routes as " Halifax, N.S." 

Port Henry, N.Y Same RoNtes as given at "Port Kent, N.Y." 
Port Jervis, N. Y N. Y., Lake Erie A Western Ry, page 41 



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Citizens Lille, jiage 

II Delaware A Iludxou R.R., page 

Peoples Line, page 

Portland, Conn Ilatf rd Line, page 

Portland. Me Fall River Line, page 

II N. Y., New Haven A Hartford R R., jia^,, 

International Sleaiiihhip Co., page 

j^ .Maine .Steaniship Co., page 

Portland Steam Packet Co., page 

^j Providence Lim^, page 

^j Stonington Line, page 

Casco llav Steamboat Co., pager 

Port Richmond, W. Y-Stnten IsLmd Kerry 4 R.R., page 

I'ortsmouth, N.H l-all RiVer Line, page 

II N. Y., New Haven A Ilartlord R.R., page 

ProTidence Line-, page 

Stc^nington Line, page 

Poughkeepsie, N.Y Albany Day Line, page 

Kiiigstcin Line, page 

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" Red Cross Line jiage 28 

Princess Bay, N.Y StutiMi Island Fe.ry A Riilroad, jiHge ifl 
Profile House. N. H. ...Same Routes a« for "Fabyans." 

Providence, B. l....N.V.,New Haven A Hartford r!r., page 2S 

" Providejice Line, page 2J 

" Stonington Line, page 24 

Provincetown Fall River Line, page 20 

Quebec, Canada CJuebec Central Ry., page 14 

Albany Day Line, jmge 6 

Citizens Line, iiage 22 

Delaware A Hudson R.R., jiage :iO 

F'all River Line, page 20 

Peoples Line, page 26 

New Haven Steaml/oat Co., page 34 

N. Y., New lla^en A Hartford R.R., page 28 

Portland Steam Packet Co., page 36 

R d Cross Line, page 28 

Stonington Line, i>age 24 

Ramapo, N. J N. v.. Lake Erie A Western Ry, page 44 

Rangeley Lakes, Me Fall River Line, page 20 

" Maine Steamship Co., page 36 

" N.Y., New Haven A Hart. R.R., page 2S 

" ....Portland Steam Packet Co., page 36 

Providence Line, page 24 

" Stonington Line, paee 24 

Raquette Lake. N.Y Same Routes as " .\cliroiidacks." 

Reading, Pa .. . Lehigh Valley R.R., i)age 12 

Red Beach, Me Same Routes as for " FJastport, Me." 



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steamers MONTAUK and SHELTER ISLAND, 

For Orient, Shelter Island, Greenport, Southold and Sag Harbor. 

Fare, Including Berth, only $ 1 .25. 

Connecting at Greenport with Steamer " TEDDIE" for New Suffolk, Jamesport and Riverhead. 

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(Saturdays during July and August, at 1 .OO p.m.) For Hours at Landings see Index uu last page of 
BuUinger'a Monitor Guide for 'Stt-amboata for Places Not on Hudson River." 

Special attention given to the transportation of Horses and Carriages. 

For full information address, 

H. FRENCH, Ceneral Manager, Montauk Steamboat Co., 
Sag Harbor, N. Y., or 

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Perfect Climate— Breezy Days and Cold Nights— Superb Scenery— Boating, Bathing and 
Glorious Fishing— Excellent Cycling— Hospitable People, and Board amazingly low— It's the 
Ideal Vacation Land. And the ocean voyage from BOSTON to YARMOUTH -Delightful, 
Exhilarating and so Inexpensive. Send for Folder, giving rates, sailings, etc. 

A handsome, new, lavishly illustrated book "BEAUTIFUL NOVA SCOTIA" full of 
Information, sent on receipt of lO cents to cover postage. 

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Rhinebeck, N.Y Albunj Day T.iiip, papB 

'■ Saiitiertifs .t New York ^^.H. Co., |iu;;o 

Kichardson Lakes, Me f^iinu' Kwutes as given at 

•• Kaiiui-lry l.aUi's, Me." 

Richfield Springs, N. Y Albany Bay Line, page 

" Peoples Line, page 

Richmond. Me ?anie Houtes as ^iven at " Augusta, Me." 

RiggSVllle, Me Same Routes as given at ' Augusta, Me." 

Riverside, N. Y Albany Day Line, page 

Citizens Line, page 2vJ 

...Peoples Line, page 2<> 

" Delaware & Iluilsc.n U.K., page 3ii 

Robbin^-tcn, Me Same Uoutes as fur " Kasti ort, .Mo." 

Roberval, Que Same Itouti's »s given lor "(iutbec." 

Rochester, JSI. Y N. V., LaUe Erie & western Ky, page 41 

Lehigh Valley It. K, page li 

Rockland, Me-Same R,.utes as given at "Mount Desert, Me." 

Rock Landing, Conn - Hartlord Line, jiage 22 

Rondoilt, N. Y Albany Pay Line, page r, 

Kingston Line, page 14 

Round Lake, N.Y Same Routes a» lor " AcUrondacks." 

Rouses pi int. N. Y-.Sanie Routes as tor ■' nurlington, Vt." 

Roxbury, N. Y Sanu- Routes as given at "Phoniiia, N.Y." 

Rutland, Vt Albany Day Line, page 

" Central Vermont R.R.. page 1(1 

" Citizens Line, page 

" Delaware & Hudson R.R., page 

" New Haven Steamboat Co 

" N. Y , New Haven & Hart lord R.R. 

" Fall River Line 

" Peoples Li lie 

" Providence Line 

" Stoiiington Line, page 

Rye Beach, N. H Same Routes as for " Portsmowtli. N. H. 



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Sag Harboj", L.I Montauk Steamboat Co.. page 10 

Saglienay River, Sann- Routes as given for "Quebec " 

Sailors SnUgHarbor... statin island Keiry ,V R.P., page 92 
St. Albans, Vt . -auo' Koutes as given tor •' liurlingtuu. ^'t.' 
St. Andrews, N.B--.Saine Rontesas given at " Eastport, Me." 

St. John, N.B Kail River Line, iiage 2(1 

" N Y.. New Haven <t Haitfora U.K.. page 2,s 

" Maine Steamsliii) Co., page 'M 

" Inleriiational Steamship Co., page H4 

" Providence Line, page 24 

" Stoiiington I ine, iiage Jt 

" Yarmoutli Sti^amshiji Co., jiage Iti 

St Johns, N F^... _ ....Reel Cross Line, paire 2h 



St. La-wrence River— Lower 
St. Lawrence River— Upper •• 



.Same Koutes as "Quebec 



.Albany Day Line, page 

" ■" Cit Zens Line, page 22 

••■ " Peoples Line, page L'li 

" " Lehigh Vallev R.R., page 12 

" " N.\'., Lake Erie &« est RR.,ijag« 44 

St. Paul, Minn Chicago, Mil. & St. Paul Ry., page 4(i 

St. Stephens, N.B Same Routes as for '•Eastport, Me ' 

Sandwich, Mass tall Hiver Line, page 2(1 

Saranac Lakes Same Routes as given at "Adirondacks." 

Saratoga, N.Y Albany Day Line, page (1 

" Citizens Line, jiage SJ. 

" Delaware & Hudson R.R., page :!ii 

" Peopl.s Line, page i(; 

Saugerties. N.Y ..Saugerties & New York S.B. Co., page (il 
Sawyers Island Me.-Same Routi-s as given at "Augusta, Me" 

Savbrook, Conn H'.rtfod Line, pnge 22 

" N. v., New Haven & Hart. R.R , page 28 

Schroon Lake, N.Y Same Routes as for "Adirondacks." 

Scranton Pa ■ Lehigh Valley R.R., page J2 

Seabright, N.J Steamer Little Silver, page 32 

" N. Y. it Long Branch Steamboat oo.. '.l^ 

Searsport, Me Same Routes as given at "Bangor, Me.'' 

SebagO Lake, Me-.-Same Koutes as given at "Portland, Me." 
Sedgewick, Me--Sanie Rentes as given at "Mount Desert. Me." 

Seneca Lake. N.Y Lehigh Valley R.K., page 12 

Sewaren, N. J li<itet Sewaren. pag: 46 

Shandaken, N.Y. Same Rontesas given at " Phtenicia, N.Y." 

Sharon Springs, N.Y Albany Day Line, page 6 

" Delaware & Hudson R.R., page lid 

" Peoples Line, page 2(1 

Sheldrake, N.Y Lehigh Valby R.R.. i)ago IJ 

Shelter Island, L.I Montauk Steamboat Co, jiage li; 

Sherbrooke, Que Quebec Central Fy, page 14 

Khohola Glen, Pa N- Y., Lake Erie & Western R.v, page 44 

Shokan. N.Y Same Routes as given at " Phoenicia, N. Y." 

Shrewsiaury River, N.J Steamer Little silver, Jiage 32 

" N.V. a. Long Branch Steamboat Co., |iage ;i2 

Siasconset, Mass Fall River Line, page 2(1 

Silver Lake, N. Y....N. Y., Lake Eri.- & Western Ry, page 44 
South Beach, N.Y-Staten Island Ferry & Railroad, page 92 

South Cairo, N.Y Same Routes as for "Catskill, N. Y." 

South Dennis, Mass Fall River Line, page 20 

South Glastonbury, Conn Hattford Lin*-, jiago 22 

Southold. L. I Montauk Steamboat Co, jiage K! 

South Paris, Me ...Same R.mtes as given at " Portland, Me." 

South Shore Resorts of Mass Fall River Line, page 2ii 

South "Wareham Fall River Line, pag-e 20 

Southwest Harbor, Me Same Routes as given for 

' Mount Desert, .Me." 



South Yarmouth Fall River Line, page '0 

Spirit Lake Chieagc,, Mil. n St. Paul Rv., page 4(i 

opringfield. Mass .N.Y., New Haven & Hart. R.K., page 28 

,, Har fold Line, page 22 

New ILiven Steamboat Co., page 34 

Spruce Point, Mo .Same Koules as giviii at •'Augusta .Me " 

Squirrel Island, Me Same Routes as foi "Augusta Me'- 

ataatsburg, N. Y.. Saugerties & New York S. B.Co., pa^ie U 
Stanilord, N.Y .Same Routes as given at " Piio-nicia NY" 

Stapleton, JSI . Y Stat, n Island Kerrv & Railnwd, paV« (i'.i 

Staten I.sland .Statu IsUmt Kerry A: Railroad, page !(•> 

Stonv Clove, N.Y Same Routes as for "Pli(enicia N Y " 

Stockbridge, Mass N.V, N. H. & HarlfonI R.R pa-'e •'» 

Stockport, N. Y Catskill Line St.amers, page 4i 

Stonington, Conn....N Y., New Haven i ILirt. R.R , page M 

_ „ Stoiiington Line, page \:i 

Sufrern, ?I. if \. Y., Lake Erb- .V Western Rv. pagr 44 

Sugar Hill, N.H. Same Routes as given at "' F'abvans." 




OriATCHOUAN FALLS ; (^lUKBKC. 



Sullivan, Me-. Same Routes as given at "Mount Desert, .Me." 

Summerside, P.E.I Same Routes as tor "Halifa.x, N.S." 

Sunset Park, N.Y Same Routes as " Catskill .Mountains.' 

Swamoscott, Mass Fall River Line, page 20 

Sydney, C.B Red cross Line, page 38 

Taghanic Falls, N.Y Lehigh Valley R.R,, page 12 

Tannersville, N.Y Same Routes as for "Catskill .Mountains." 

The Glen, N.Y Same Routes as given at "Saratoga, N.Y.'" 

The " Notch," N.H .Same as given at "North Conway, N.U." 
Thousand Islands, as follows: 

Albany Day Line, page (J. 

Citizens Line, page 22. 

Delaware & HiidHon R.R., page . 30. 

Lehigh Valley R.R , page 12. 

N.Y.. Lake Erie Ji Wettein Ry., page 44. 

Peoples Line, ]iage 2(;. 

Thurman, N.Y Same Rontesas given for "Adirondacks." 

Tivoli. N.Y Saugerties & .New York S.B. Co.. page 04 

Tompkinsville, N.Y... .staten Island Ferry & R.R., page U2 



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SUMMER TIME TABLE. 

Boats, via Bay Ridge Ferry, leave foot of 
Whitehall St., N.Y., terminus of the Elevated Rail- 
roads aud Broadway and Belt Line Cars, hourly, from 7 10 am 
to 10 10 a m, then half hourly (Sundays, every 20 minutes) 
until 9 40 and at 10 20 pm. Returning, trains leave 
Sea Beach Palace, Coney Island, at like intervals until 11 12 
pm for New York, via Bay Ridge Ferry, and at 12 mid- 
night and one o'clock night for Brooklyn or New York, via 
Brooklyn City Electric Lines, or Union Elevated Railroad 
and Bridge. 

fH^^For exact time table for current week, see Index 
on last page of BulUnger's Monitor Guide. 

Time, New York to Coney Island, 37 Minutes. 

New York Excursion Tickets, 40 cents. 

Return Tickets from New York are good to return to 
Third Avenue, Brooklyn, and will be received on the 
Brooklyn City Railroad or the Union Elevated Railroad for 
passage to the Bridge, the Ferries, or intermediate points; 
also, on payment of difference of fare, to return by the 
Brooklyn and Brighton Beach R. R. Excursion Tickets to 
Brighton Beach, including Stage or Elevated R. R. fare from 
the Sea Beach Palace directly to the Brighton Beach Race 
Track, Concert Hall and Hotel, both ways, 45 cents. 

Brooklyn Connections-— Take Brooklyn Union 
Elevated Railroad (fare five cents from any part of Brooklyn) 
or Court St., Third Ave. or Hamilton Ave. (Brooklyn City 
Line) Electric cars to City Line (65th Street aud Third Ave.) 
Sea Beach trains leave there at 7 30, 8 30, 9 30 a m, and 
half hourly until 10 and at 10 40 pm.; Sundays, every 15 
minutes. Last regular Brooklyn train leaves Sea Beach 
Palace at midnight. This route is five cents cheaper and ten 
minutes quicker than any other from the Brooklyn Bridge, 
the Ferries, and all intermediate points. 

Time, Brooklyn to Coney Island, 14 Kinutes. 

Fare "between Brooklyn & Coney Island, 10 Cents. 
New York " " " 20 " 

The Lessees of the SEA BEACH PALACE 

conduct a continuous Musical, Dramatic and Acrobatic entertainment of great interest, day 
and evening, to which passengers are admitted without charge. 

The World Renowned Captain Paul Boyton has leased the grounds north 
of the Sea Beach Palace for the purposes of his 

&RAND AaUATIC EXHIBITION AND WATER TOBO&&AN CHUTES 
(formerly located in London and at the Chicago World's Fair.) 




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Toronto, Ont Allxinv Day Line, page fi 

" X. v.. I.nUc Kri<' A \V.st<Tn Kv, |iii-.- 4-1 

" Uliisli Valley I!. It., |iiige 12 

' Peoplt-s liliKt, ]ia};o "Jli 

Tottenville, N. Y... !>tatni IsIiHid Kerry & lUilroail, page !I2 
Tourist Tickets. Ikhu New York to all points East ami North, 
an lollow.s : 

Alliaiiy Day liinc, pafje 0. 

Citizens liinc, pa^c "JJ. 

Delaware A lluilson U.K.. page 30. 

Fall Kiver i.ine. iia^e 'JD. 

Lelii^'h Valley IMt , Jia-e 1_'. 

N.Y., l^ake Erie & W I'steni Ky.. pmc ^1. 

p. oples Line, page -.;(!. 

Proviilence I.ine, page Jl. 

StoningtoM l,iiie, Jiage 24. 

Trefethens Island, Me Casco B«y Steamiioat Co., page .'JC 

Treniont, Mass Kail ]Uver Mne, page 2(1 

Trenton Falls, N.Y .Mhany Day Line, page « 

'■ Peoples Line, page 2'! 

Troy, N. Y AUmny Day Line, jiage 

" Citizens Line, page 2i 

" Delaware & lludsou U.K., page ;iO 

Truro, Mass Fall Kiver Line, i>age 20 

Turners, N. Y N. V., Lake Erie & Western Ky, page 4t 

Turners Falls, Mass llanturd Line, page 22 

" N- w Haven Ste.niboat Co, page .'U 

" N v.. New Haven & Mart. U.K., page 2.S 

Tuxedo, N. Y N. Y., Lake Erie A Western Ky, page 44 

Twilight Park. N.Y ?a e as "Catskill Monntams." 

Twin Mountain House, N.H. Same Kontes as given at 

" White Mountains. ' 
" Tiri'ti Mountain Hou.^i' :i2 



Ulster Landing N.Y Sangerties & N.Y. S.B. Co , page(;4 

UmbagOg Lake •i^ame Kontes as given at "Kangeley Lakes." 



Verg'ennes, Vt Same Routes as given for " Kntlaiid, Vt." 

Vineyard Haven Fall Kiver Line, jiage 20 

" Maine Steamship Co., jiage 'M 



Walden, N.Y....Newburg, Orange Lal-e & Wnlden Ry, page 

" Rams ells Line, page 

"Wallkill Valley, N. Y Kamsdell s Line, i>age 

" N wlinrg. Orange Lake & VValden R> . page 

Warwick, R I N- Y., New Haven & Hart. R.K., 

" Providence Line. 

" Stoningtou Line, 

"Wareham, Mass Kail River Line, 

Watch Hill, R. I Stonington Line, 

" New London Steamboat Co , 



W aterbury , Conn.. ..N.Y. .New Haven & Hartford R.R., 
•' .. ..New Haven Steamboat Co 



, page 28 
page 24 
page 24 
page 2ii 
page 24 
page 2(i 
, page 28 
. page 34 

Waterville, N.H .Same Routes as given at "Plymouth. N.lf." 
Watkins Glen, N.Y.. .N.Y., Lake Erie & Western Ky, i.age 44 

" Leliigh Valley K.K,,page 32 

Waukesha, Wis Chicago, Mil. & St. Paul Ry., page 40 

W^eirs, N. H Same Route as given for " Plymouth, N.H." 

"Wellfleet, Mass Fall River Line, page 20 

"Wells Beach, Me Same Routes as for ''Portsmouth, N, H." 

W'est Barnstable Fall River Line, page 20 

WestBrighton Beach Sea Reach Route, page 18 

Westcolang Park Pa ..X.Y., i ake Erie & Wes. Ky, page 44 

West Falmouthj Mass Kail River Line, page 20 

"West Hurley, N. Y Sa e Routes as for " Phoenicia, N.Y." 

"Westminster Park, St. Lawrence River— Same 

Routes as triven at "St. iiawrence River." 
"West Ossipee, N.H-Same Routes as given at 

■ X..rtli Conway, N. II.'' 
"West Park, N.Y.-.-Saugerties & New York S. B. Co., page Il4 

"West Point, N.Y Albany Day Line, page 6 

" Kamsdells Line, jiage 8 

"Westport, Me Same Routes as given at "Augusta, Me." 

"Westport.N. Y Same Routes as given at 'VVhitelutll.N. Y " 

"Weymouth, N. S Yarmouth Steamship Co., page 16 

"White Bear, Minn. Chicago, Mil. & St. Paul Ry., page 40 

"Whitehall, N. Y Albany Day Line, page 

" Citizens' Line, page 22 

" ....Delaware & Hudson R.R., i>age 3o 

" Peoples Line, jiage 2iJ 

"White Mountains, N.H., as follows: 

Albany Day Line, page G. 

Citizens Line, page '22. 

Fall River Line, page 20. 

Delaware & Hudson R.R., page 30. 

Maine Steamship Co., page 30. 

N. Y., Lake Erie & Western Ry, page 44. 

New Haven Steamboat Co., page 34. 

New York, New Haven & Hartford R.R., page 28. 

Portland Steam Packet C<i., page 36. 

Peoples Line, page 26. 

Providence Line, page 24. 

Stouington Line, page 24. 
"Whitefield, N. H Same Routes as for "White Mountains." 



White River Junction, Vt., asfoiiowg: 

( ' iitral Vtriiiont R.R., page 10. 

Kail Kiver Line, page 20. 

S- \v Haven Sle:iml)oat Co., iiago 34. 

New York, New llav<-n & Hartford R.R., page 

Providence Line, page 24. 

Stonington Line, page 24. 

"Wickford, R.I Newport & Wickford R.U., 

,-,.-, , • Stonington Line, 

w^ilkesbarre. Pa Lehi^di Valhv r.r. 

"Williamsport, Pa Lehigh Valley K.R., 

"V\'^illimantic, Conn N. Y., New IJav. it iLirt. R.R., 

Hartford Line, 

New Haven Steamhoat Co.. 

Williamstown, Mass Albany Day Line, 

Citizens' Line, 

Delaware & Hud. K.R., 

II ....N.Y., New llav.A Hart. R.K., 

■ Peoples Line, 

"Winchester, Conn N.Y.,NewHav A HartlordR.K., 

" New Haven Steamboat Co,, 



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"Windham. N. Y.. Same Routes aa given at "Catskill." 

"Windsor, N. S Same Routes as given at " Halifax, N.S." 

" Yarmouth Steamship Co., page 16 

"Winooski, Vt Same Routes as given for " Burlington, Vt." 

Windsor, Vt Central Vermont R.R. .page 1" 

" New Haven Steamboat Co., page 31 

" ..N.Y., New Haven A Hart. R.R , page 28 

"Winsted, Conn N. Y., New Haven A Hartford R.R., page -28 

"Winterport, Me Same Routes as given at " Bangor, Me." 

"Woltboro', N.H. -Same Routes as given at "Alton Bay, N.H." 

"Wolfville, N. S Yarmouth Steamship Co., page 16 

"Woods Holl, Mass Kali River Line, page '-o 

"Woodstock, N. H Same Routes as given at " Plymouth, N.H." 

"Woodstock, "Vt Same Routes as "White River Junction." 

"Worcester, Mass Fall River Line, page 20 

'* N.Y., New Haven A Hartford R.R., page '-8 

" Providence Line, page 24 

" Stonington Line, page 24 

Yarmouth, Mass Fall River Line, page 20 

"Yarmouth, N.S .Same Routes as for "St. John, N.B." 

" Yarmouth Steamshi|) Co., page 1*) 

Yellowstone'Park Chica.go, Mil. A St. Paul Ry., page 40 



DON'T HESITATE to ask any name in the above list for particulars of Rates, Routes, Trains, Etc., 
they wili be glad to give such information — mention BULLINGER'S GUIDE. 



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"fall river line, 

The Great Business and Pleasure Route between 

NEW YORK and BOSTON, 

Newport, Providence, Cottage City, Nantucket, Cape Cod, the Mountain^ 
Seashore and Inland Summer Resorts of New England. 

THE FALL RIVER LINE has been so long and so favorably known to the travel- 
ing public that any detailed setting forth of its merits and characteristics would 
seem to be unnecessary. Without doubt, however, a very large number of its patrons 
and admirers are of persons who know it best as a Summer route, its superior 
attractions at this season of the year always winning for it "golden opinions" from 
all sorts of people. And, indeed, the estimation in which it is thus held is entirely 
justitied by the fascinations of its route and the conditions that distinguish it. The 

., , trip over Long Island 

•i Sound, and the waters 

of Narragansett and 
Mount Hope Bays, is 
superbly delightsome 
and is full of attrac- 
tiveness a n d satis- 
factory qualities at 
any time or season. 
The scenic beauties of 
this route can hardly 
be described, so varied, 
numerous and delight- 
some are they ; while 
the element of comfort 
in traveling, so hard to 
realize in summer time, 
is with this agency a 
leading factor, and 
always united with 
safety, sure connec- 
tions and all manner 
of pleasing features. 
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Pilgrim and Providence 

are unequalled in the world elsewhere by similar enterprise ; and this vast and 
restless agency is, indeed, one of the wonders of the century. Music, and all features 
for the satisfaction or delighting of patrons, are unvarying the whole year round. 



FROM NEW YORK:— Steamers leave Pier 18 North River, foot of Murray St. 
FROM BOSTON :— Trains connecting with Steamers at Fall River (49 miles) 
leave Park Square Station (N. Y., N. H. & H. R.R.— Old Colony System). 
TICKETS BY THIS ROUTE are on Sale at all of the Principal Ticket Offices in the United States and Canada. 

Send Six t'eiilM in .stamps lo P.O. Box 1.52, iVcw York I'ity, for Sinniner Books and Printed Descriiitive Matter. 

S. A. GARDNER, GEORGE L. CONNOR, O. H. TAYLOR, 

Superintendent, Passenger Traffic IVIanager, General Passenger Agent, 

NEW YORK. NEV^ HAVEN. 



NEW YORK. 



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SUMMER TOURIST BOOKS. 

Special attention is inviUd to the fact tiial many itailioad and Steamer Lines issue "Hand B()ol<s " 
or "Guides," which may be had on written application to tiie lines ; some of these books are lieautiful 
and expensive works, elegantly printed and illustrated, witii Maps, tfec, and are well worth the trouble 
of writing for, the nniiltuncc asked for liy some is ncNcr large enougii l<i ]>.iy fur even :i frMclinn of the 
cost of the illustrations, usually it is only sullieient to pay the cost of mailing ; see list below : 

1^* Apiilicalions for ('(>]>ies should mention " IJulmngkk's Gvwk." 



'"A Summer Paradise." 
Send six conts to .1. \V. Buidick, (it'iieral l';is.siiij;ci- ARent, Dela- 
^\:^n■ & Ilnilsnii U.I!.. Altmiiy, N. Y. 

^ee adve-lisemint, pace iJH. 


"Land of Evangeline Houte." 
S-nt frcp liy J. !•'. .Spinney, Agent, YiirmDUtli Sti-nniship Co. 
Lewis Wliurf, JJo:tiij. .Mass 

See ailver:isfmen>, page Ki. 


"A Sunday Off." 

Suit free I'V T. T. Uavilaiid, 8ecn-tarv, K:imsilc!l'8 Line, Newl.iir;^, 
N. Y. 

Sfi" adrerlisemmf, pat-t 8. 


" Map of Long Island Sound." 

S 'ml one rent to O. 11. Taylor, (lencial l'aH,enger Agent, Fall 
KiVi r Lino, fuoi ol Miiriay Strett, New York, 
.fee adrerlinmen-, pan' 2i). 



"Beautiful Nova Scotia." 

Sen<l ten rents to .1. K. 8pinney, As* nt, Yunnoutli ^tcainsliip Co., 
Lewis Wliarf. lioslon, Mass. 

■Sec adrertisement, page Hi. 



"iilock Island and "Watch Hill." 

Sent free by .T. A. SouthanI, General Passenger A^Bnt. N<'w 
Louiiou Ste.imboat Co., New London, Conu. 
See advertisement, page 2(J. 

" Catskill Mountains." 

Sent free liv W. ,T. llimlus, Trea^urer, ('atsUill Line of Steamers, 
Catskill. .n'. V. 

S^i' a'lrerliii'iiienf. page 42. 

"Catskill Mountains." 
•Send si.v cents to N. A. Sims, (Jeueral Pasjeni;er Agent, I'lster & 
Delaware H.K , Rondout. N. V. 

"Catskill Mountain Resorts, &c." 

-Sent free li.y Myron Teller, Treasuier, Kouier .t Tremiier Steam- 
boat Co., Kingston. N. Y. 

See aiivr rtisinK tit, page W. 



"Catskill Mountain Summer Resorts." 
Sent free by Daniel N. Finger, Agent, Saiigerties & New York 
Steamboat Co., Sangerties, N. Y'. 

See adverlisemenf, page 1)4. 

"Evolution of the Fall River Line." 

Sent fre<» I. yd. II, Ta.\ltir, General Passenger Agent, Fall Kiv.r 
Line, uot nf Murray Street, New York. 

Sfe aiivertisemrnt, page 'Jii. 

"Fishing." 
Sent fre- by Gforge H. Ileaftord, (Jeneral Passenger Agint, 
Chieago, Milwankee & St. Panl Ry., CliiCHgo, III. 
See adnertiaement, page 40. 

" Green Hills of Vermont and along the Shores of 

Lake Champlain." 
Sent trie by S. W. CnminiDgs, Geueial Passenger Agent, Ci'ntral 
Vermont R.R , St Albans. At. 

See adrertiin'menl, page W. 

"Hotel Champlain." 

Sent free bv .T. W. Bnrdick, General Passenirer Agent, Delaware 
k Hudson R.R., Albany, N. Y. 

See adverti ement, page oO. 

"Hudson River by Daylight."— 

Send six i-.'iils t.p K. I!. Ilibliard, General P.ism iigvr Agent, Albany 
Day Line, Desbmsses Street Pier, iN'ew York. 
See advertisement, pag" Ij. 

"Ideal tiummer Resorts in Picturesque Maine." 

Sent free by Freileriek A. ,(one8, Pas:.enger Agent, Kennebec 
Steamboat Co., Lincoln Wharf, Boston, Mass. 
See advertisement, page S. 

"In Three States." 

Sent fr e by Charles S. Lee, General Passenger Ag. nt, Leliigh 
Valley K.R. Pliiladel]diia, Pa.; or W. B. Smith. G.n.-ral Kaslern 
Passenger A.^ent, l':'.') Broadway, N. Y'. 

See advertisemen', page l'.i. 



"Island Gemmed Casco Bay." 

Send fo\ir eeuts to C. W. T. Godiug, General Manager, Casco Bay 
Steamboat Co., Portland. Me. 

See advertiseme t, page :'•(>. 

List of Books Continued on Page 23. 



"Marthas Vineyard." 
Senil two ciiits to O II. Taylor, G.-ner^l I'assenger Ageut, Fall 
Kiver Line, loot of Murray Mreet. New York. 

See adrerisemetit, jiage 20. 



" Marthas Vineyard and Maine." 

Sent fr»e by Horatio Hall, Agent, Maine Steamship Co , Pier 38 
East River, New York. 

See advertisement, page. ;!U. 




■':^)fc*t^jafr_ 



ST. L(JUIS GATE — (JIKHKC. 



"Mountain, Lake and Meadow." 

Send 8i.\ cents to .1. W. Bnrdick, Gtueral Passenger Agent, Dela- 
ware k Hudson R R., Allnmy, N. Y. 

See aav-rtisemenf, page ;ifl. 

"TSTantucket." 
Send two cents to O. H. Taylor, General Passenger A eut, Fa'l 
Uiver Line, foot oi Mnrrav Street, N w York. 
.sVc adrerlisemint. page '20. 



"Newport, R. I." 
Send two cents to 0. H. Taylor, <i ueral Passenger As;ent. Fall 
River Line, loot of -Murray Street. New York. 

See adrerlisemeiit. page ii'. 

"Nova Scotia and New Foundland." 

Sent fiee by Red Cro^s Line, " Stone Street, New York. 
See advertisement, page 2S. 



"Old Colony Summer Resorts." 
Send two cents t.i O. II. Taylor, General Passenger Agent. Fall 
River Line, foot of Murray Sireet, New York. 
See advertisement, page i». 



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Citizens Line— Troy Boats. 

POPULAR HUDSON EIVEB ROUTE TO 

Troy, Saratog-a, Schroon Lake, North Adams, Poultney, Vt., Manchester, Vt., 
Adirondack Region and Lakes Georg-e and Champlain. 



These steamers are 
fir-st-class in every 
particular and have 
unsurpassed passen- 
ger accommodations. 



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SUNDAY 
STEAMERS 
TOUCH AT 
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Leave Daily, except Saturdays, from Pier 46 N.R., Foot West 10th St., at 6 p.m. 

Connecting with Saratoga, LaVce George and Adirondack Express Trains to all Points 

NORTH and EAST, via Delaware & Hudson and Fitchburg Railways. 

Foi Tickets and State Rooms apply at the Office on the Pier, also at F. Clark's, 111 Broad- 
^vay, H. Gaze & Son, 118 Broadway, T. Cook & Son, 261, 1225 Broadway, also at Ticket Offices, 
Nos. 278, 84/, 4.S7, 699, 397, 42 1, 944, 1828 Broadway, 737 Sixth Ave., 148 Bowery, 184 East 
12Sth St., 264 West 125th St., 251 Columbus Ave., Mew York: and in Brooklyn at 4 Court. 
860 Fulton Street, 98 Broadway. 

EXCURSION TICKETS TO TROY, $2.50 ; SARATOGA AND RETURN, $4.50 ; 
LAKE GEORGE AND RETURN, $7.30. TICKETS GOOD DURING SEASON. 

Also to many other Points at Low Rates. 



J. CORNELL, President. G. M. LEWIS, General Ticket Agent. 

For Hours at Lmidiii^js, si-e IiuUx ou hi.<t jutrjc of BuUinger's Mnnitor Vuidc for ^\Stcaiiiboi(ts for I'loim on Jliolxon Rii-<r." 



The only accurate time-tables of New York 



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"HARTFORD LINE/; 

Hartford & New York Transportation Company. 

The ONLY DIRECT Passenger and Freight Line to 
HARTFORD, MIDDLETOWN, GOODSPEEDS LANDING, ESSEX, SAYBROOK POINT, 

And Intermediate Landings on the 

BEAUTIFUL CONNECTICUT RIVER, 

and connecting with railroads to Springfield, Meriden, Unionville and Waterbury, 

FOR ALL POINTS 

NORTH, EAST and WEST. 

steamer leaves Pier 24 E. R., foot of Peck Shp, at 6.00 p.m., arriving 

at Hartford at 7.00 a.m. 

Fare between NEW YORK and HARTFORD, $1.80, including Berth ; Round Trip, good for 6 
days, $2.23; Round Trip, good for season, $2.50; State Rooms, $1.00 each ; Deck Passage, $1. 15. 

First-class facilities for forwarding Freight with Quick Dispatch. 

Rates and full particulars on application to 

C. C. GOODRICH, General Manager, W. B. SMITH, Agent, 

Ha-tforcJ, Conn. Pier 24- East River. N. Y. 



SUMMER TOURIST IIOOKS. 



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"Quaint Cape Ccd." 

^ond fiiur cents to 0. II. Taylur, Giinril I':is8eiii;er Agcut, Kiill 
lii ver Line, toot ot Murray Slieot, New Vmk. 
Ace adrerlisi'iiinif, pnif liii. 



"Rate Folder." 

Send two cents to 0. H. Taylor, (i.nenil Passenger A p;ent, Fall 
River Line, f ot u Jluiray Stnet, New York. 
S'e advertisement, rage 20. 



"Rates and Rovites for Summer Excursions." 

Sent trie l>y Clia les fl. I,e , (J.-nniil I'.issenKer Aircnt, l.ehiali 
Vrlley K.K , I'Inlade plila, la.; or \V. H. Sniilh, (ieniial KasUiu 
I'as en};er Agent, 2:!."i limadway, New York. 

Sa; advertisemi III, page 12. 
"Sea Coast Resoits of Eastern Maine." 

Send !.■> 4t-nts to K. A. Walilron, (leucral Aj;cnt, luU-rnational 



Steamship C'l 



Hoston, Mars. 

See (idrerliai'jiieiit, papi' 'M. 



"Sea Shore, Lakes and Mountains." 

Send lour cents to II. f. lialdwin, (Jeneral Passenger Agent, 
Central R U. of New Jo, sey, 14;{ Liberty Street, Ntw York. 



"Seen from the Train." 

Sent free by Cl.arles S. Lee, Geu<'ral P.>s»ent;er Agent. Leliigli 
Valley R.R.," Pliiladeli Ina, Pa.; or W. I!. Smith, Oent ral Kaste n 
Passei'ger Agent, 230 Broadway, New York. 
.S'e adver isi'minf, page 12. 



"Short Journeys on a Long Koad." 

Send ten eenis to George II. lleaft'onl, (leueral Passenger Agent, 
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ky., Chicago HI. 
See advertisement, jiage 40. 



" Summer Excursion Book " 

of Stonington aLd Providence Lines, write to \V. DeVV. Diinock, 

Assi.stant General Passenger Agent, New Pier l!(j N.K., New York. 

Sir advertisement, page 24. 



"Summer Excursion Routes and Rates." 
Sent free by D. I. Roberts, General Passenger Agent, New York. 
Lake Erie & Western K.K., 21 Cortlandt Street, N. Y. 
See aditrtisement, page 44. 



"Summer Homes." 

Si lid live cents to I). I. Kulierls, (ieneial P.isHenger Agent N. w 
\ork. Lake Krie .t Western R.K., 21 Corthindl Street, N. Y. 
Sei' iilierlisemenl, J) ige W. 



" Summer Homes along the Hudson." 

Send (Wo ernls to Cai.l. .\. K. And.rson, Steamer .Mary I'owill, 
Kingston, N. Y. 



"Summer Hotels and Boarding Houses." 

Sent free by (lias. S. Lee, G, neral Passen;;.r Agent, Lehigh Yallcy 
U.K., I'hilaliel|diia, Pa.; or \V. It. Smilli, General Kaslerii Pasneii- 
ger Agent, 2.i."i Uioadway, N. Y. 

See. (idrirlis ineni, jiage l:i. 



"Summer Resor.s" 

on the New Haven System of the New York, New llav n A Hart- 
ford K.K. Sei'd two cents to C. T. Ilemii-te,„l, (ieneral Passenger 
Agent, New Viuk, New Haven &. Ilarlfonl R.K., New llaveu, Conn. 
See advertiseme'it, page 2.S. 

"The Berkshire and Litchfield Hills." 

Send two cents to 0. T. Ileniiistead, G. neral Passenger Agent, 
New York, New Haven & Ilartlord U.K., New Haven, Conn. 
See adrertisement, pane 28. 

" The D. & H.-A Souvenir," 

Including Lake (ieorge and tlir .Vdin.iidacks. 
Send six cents to .1. VV. tiurdick, (ieneral Passenger Agent, Dela- 
ware & Hudson R.R., Albany, N. Y. 

k^ee adrerti ement, page :j(». 



"The Quebec Route." 

Kolder sent free by ,1. H. Walsh, Geiieial Passenger Agent, 
(iueliec Central Railway. Sherbrooke, Que. 

rlisement, page 14. 



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"Tourist Trips by the Central Vermont R.R." 

Sent free by S. W. Ciimmiiigs. (Jtiieial Pas.enger Agent, Cential 
N'eriuont K.R., St. Albans, Vt. 

.See adrirtisement, page 10 

"Towards the Sunrise." 

Send fifteen cents to K. A. Waldron, General Agent, International 
SK^amohip Company, Boston, Mass. 
I See adcfrtisemen', page 'M. 



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PROVIDENCE So STONIMGTON STEAMSHIP COMPANY. 

p R 0„V IDENCE LINE. 

"^"'"""""~' ""THE FAVORITE WATER ROUTE AND SHORTEST RAIL RICE BETWEEN 

Providence, Worcester, White Mountains, New England Hesorts and the Maritime Provinces. 

, i-r'- ^ ''^=.^_ The PROVIDENCE LINE has the ad- 

vantage of iDeing known as the cool and 
comfortable sumnnep route for New 
England, and its steanners are arrang- 
ed with special regard for the comfort 
and safety of its passengers. The 
cuisine of the Providence Line has 
al\A^ays been noted for its excellence, 
and meals a la carte are served in the 
Dining Room on the MAIN DECK, a 
feature possessed by no other I_ine, 
and a turther distinctive feature is the 
S Main Deck Cafe, where travellers may, 
s3 vvhile listening to a first-elass Orchestra 
Z carried on each steamer, and enjoying 
^ the cooling breezes and delightful 
.-i: scenery of Long Island Sound and 
^ Narragansett Bay, have the privileges 
" ' ^^ of a first-class Club or Restaurant. 

^-««THE STEAMERS-^— 

"COraECTICUT," "MASSACHUSETTS" and "RHODE ISLAITD" 

ARE THK EQUALS OF ANY AFLOAT. 

From New York— Steamers leave Pier 36 North River, one block above Canal Street, 
daily, except Sunday, at 5.30 P.M. 

From Boston— Trains connecting with steamers at Providence (4-2 miles), leave Park 
Square Station at 6 SO P.M. 

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NARRACANSETT PIER is probably the most distinctive and famous watering place of its 
kind in all New England. Its charms are manifold, and everybody knows them. Its popularity 
is evinced by the great throngs of people \vho annually visit it. It is reached most comfortably 
by the Steamers of the Stoninglon Line from New York, in connection with through train via 
New York, New Haven <& Hartford R. R., and Narragansett Pier R.R. direct to the Pier. 

WATCH HILL is upon a broad promontory which forms the extreme southwest point of the 
State of Rhode Island. The view of the ocean from the Hill is not surpassed on the New 
England coast, and the surf bathing is among the finest in the world. In the fifty years that 
Watch Hill has been a famous resort, not a single life has been lost in bathing. Watch Hill is 
reached in the most direct manner by the Stonington Line from New York, in connection with 
the transfer steamer "Watch Hill," which makes eight trips each way, week days, between the 
Hill and Stonington, in SO minutes. 

THE STEEL PROPELLERS 

**MAINE" and **NEW HAMPSHIRE,'* 

I Fastest on the Sound.) 

Leave New Pier 36 North River, one block above Canal 
Street at 6.00 P.M., daily, except Sundays. 
(Sundays from July 7th to September 8th inclusive). 

Through connections made returning. 

^^~ Send two cents in stamps for "Summer Tours," to 
Assistant General Passenger Agent, New Pier 36 N. R. 




J. W. MILLER, 



President. 



GEO. L. CONNOR, 

Passenger Traffic Manager. 



W. DE W. DIMOCK, 

Assistant General Passenger Agent 



O. H. BRIGGS, 

General Passenger Agent. 



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RAILROAD TRAVEL V()\i I'LI-ASURE 



T^O many iicoplc niilroail travel is a bore. They 
dread it even as a means of reaciiiiiu; pleasant 
l)lace.s. and speak of tiie noise, joltinji; and dust 
as if they were tlie only tliini>-s to consider in 
a jourury on the cars. These diseomfoi'ls c.\ist, 
hut think h:i\v many comforts oll'set them. The 
noise is not as ji'reat as that mach' in ridinir over 
the jiavements of a city, whicli is reu'arded as 
Si'ood fun hy thousands of people; the jolting is 
not half as bad as that of a wagon ; the dust is 
less than a horse will throw o\-er you ; you can 
have ice water whenever you want it, and you 
can keep out of the mud. In fact so many 
improNcments have been made in railroading 
that a train journey is a j^leasant experience 
— if you take it right. 

Thirty years ago the cars were shoi-ter 
and lower, the windows small and high 
above the floor, the seats uiiright, hard and 
covered with leather; the locomotive could 
go neither as (quietly, as smoothly nor as 
swiftly as now ; the lighting at nights was 
furnished by Avhale oil lami)s and was so 
doleful llu't the conductor carried a lantern 
by which to tind his passengers and read 
their tickets ; the stops for wood and water 
were tiresome; the ventilation ami heating 
were imperfect ; sleeping cars had just come 
into use and were cramped and stuffy, 
while the occupants were awakennl and 
made to show their tickets at all hours oi 
the niglit. instead of leaving them with a 
porter ; there were no dining cars, and as 
only ten minutes were allowed at most of 
the dining stations, a vast de;il of dyspepsia 
was disseminated with the buns and sand- 
wiches; as tlie cars had not as many wheels 
and springs as they have now, they rocked 
and rattled furiously ; the road-bed was 
imperfectly ballasted and the iron rails were 
in danger of breaking ; switches were oper- 
ated by men at the turnings, or by lirakemen 
who ran ahead while the train stopped ; 
there Avas no block .system to insure safety; 
there were no air brakes, and the lirakemen, 
who earned their nami's. stojiped a train by 
the use of mu.scle. 

It is tliffereut now. When wc 
coal dust and have room to sit uj) in our berths 
we shall have little more to ask for. Our vesti- 
buk'd trains are hotels on wheels ; one goes from 
one end to the other, and cannot fall off if 
he wants to. The tracks are so smooth, the 
cars are so well l)alanced and move so silently 
that one can hardly realize the speed at which 



he is going. The liitinus are handsomer than 
tho.se of an ordinary ])arlor ; the beds arc wide 
enough and soft enougii, and are at least as com- 
fortable as those on ocean steamers ; gas or electric 
lights are supplied to e\'erv car ; waiters may be 
called by electric bells; th're are smoking rooms, 
chess rooms, bullets, bath rooms, bai'her shops, 
typewriters, writing desks, stock tickers ami a 
fi'ee library on the train; while exccdlent meals 
are served in a dining car. On such trains no 
peddlers shout at the passengers or throw books, 
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traveler feels the same liberty and the same pro- 
tee tion as on an ocean liner. The portt'r expects 
a tip from each passenger, but that is the only 
remaining miisance of the many old nuisances. ^ 

In spite of all these improvements, travel is 
cheaper than it ever was. The ccmipetitiou of 
rival roads h:is caused a reduction in fares. To 
one who loves travel, but has little time and 



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LEAVE NEW YORK FOR ALBANY every Week Day at 600 p.m. from Pier 41 N.R, foot of 
Canal St., connecting at Albany next morning with Trains for 

( Saturday Night Boat connects at Al"bany Sunday Morning with Trains North and West, 
to Saratoga, Caldwell and Steamer through Lake George). 
ALSO NEW YORK CENTRAL & HUDSON RIVER and WEST SHORE RAI LROADS, NORTH, FAST & WEST. 

WE TICKET and CHECK BAGGAGE to ALL POINTS WEST, NORTH and SOUTH. 
LEAVE ALBANY FOR NEW YORK every Week Day at 8,00 p.m., or on arrival of Trains from the 

NORTH, EAST and WEST. 

Freight received up to hour o- departure of Steamers for the North, East and "West. 
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t Excursion $l.SO. Excursion $1.50. 

CO Lunch Counter on Steamer, and Regular Dinner for 50 cents. 



The New and Elegant Side-Wheel Steamer BLOCK ISLAND 

Will, on and after .Tnnc 2tith, 1895. make daily trips (Sundays excepti-dl lictween NORWICH and NEW LONDON and 
, Xb ""■'■ "'"' BLOCK ISLAND, ronturtins; at NEW LONDON with trains from HARTFORD and the NORTH 
and WEST, and with train on NEW YORK. NEW HAVEN A HARTFORD R.R. leaving Grand Central Depot, New York, 
at &00 am, and with steamers of NORWICH LINE, leavinp; Pier 40 North Kiver, New York at 5 :«) pm 

Steamer will leave Norwich at 8 15 am. Montvllle, S 45 a m, New London 45 am. Handinfr at Wystic Island) 
arriving at Watch Hill, 10 55 am. and Block Island, 12 45 p m. Uetnrnins. will leave Block Island at 2 Oi» p m, 
(landing at W?*ch Hill and Mystic Island) making connections at New London with trains of all roads and New York 
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RAILROAD TRAVICL FOR PLILASL'Ri:. 



Ciirars arc ajit to Itc bctttT in town than on tlic 
dininsi' cars. E\i'rything tliat is rc(|uisilc may hr 
carried in a Gladstone bau;. and a trunl; is an 
alisiirdit\' unless one e\i»ects to sto]> Inr a lunnher 
of days in one place and hopes to da/.zle tiie rest 
of the company with his clothes. Slippers and ;i 
.silk cap are allowable for wear in the cars. 

Tlie outtits of some ])eople are so biij; that a 
o-Qod deal of time nmst he s]ient in takinii" care 
of them. Tliey want chan^'es of clothinii" for 
dilYerent honrs of the day. cnshions. siiawls. canes, 
umbrellas, fruit, jam, cheese, meat, wine, cake, i>ie, 
milk, an alcohol hunp. blackin<j;, druirs — things tiiat 
they are as apt to need as a life preserver. Tlie 
writer traveled once witli an Knglish naval ollicer 
whose "hand luggage" filled a wImIc section of 
a sleeping car. Instead of checking his bags and 
bundles, as he did his trunks, he ])iled tlean about 
him. to the distress of him^'lf. tlie porter ami the 
other passengers. He carried u gun, fishing rod, 
canes, food, drink, blankets, overcoats of diirerent 
•weights and colors, extra shoes, c;ips. a dozen 
books, stacks of old papers, and had barely room 
to sit in his own place. And a young American 
was nut in Euroi^e who was trying to make a 
pedestrian tour with two heavy valis;'S ami a big 
overcoat — and a sad. hard time he was having. 

Vacations are apt to be sli irt. and the things 
to he taken on them shoulil be linutid to actual 
necessities. If anything is sadly needed that you 
do not find in the train e(pupmeut tell the con- 
ductor or porter and he will try to tind it, or a 
substitute for it. You will, of course, regard 
your berth as your room an I undress when you 
go to bed ; one should never in the confined 
space of a car keep on at night the clothes he 
has Avorn during the day. In the UMrning one 
can make his ablutions as calndy and tluroughly 
as in a hotel. 

Don't make a misery of a railroad tri|i. Don't 
fret about distances, trunks, baggage express, 
delays, weather or time-tables. Get a time-table 
and read it by yourself if that kind of literature 
concerns you, and let the other passengers alone 
about it. Be interested in the scenery. Be cour- 
teous to others, and if you find yourself booked 
for a long run in company with a cheery, intel- 
ligent person, cultivate him. But don't get into 
the habit of treating or being treated. Don't 
hastily introduce yourself to your associates. 
Don't play poker with strangers, and if you are 
playing cards, chess or checkers, draw out of the 
game when stakes are proposed. There are well- 
dressed, affable scoundrels who make their living 
on steamers and trains, at other peoples expense. 
Do not travel with a lot of money or jewelry 
loose about your clothes. It is a good plan 
to carry valuables in the inside pocket of your 
vest, and to have the poeki t closed with a strong 
button. At night put the vest under your pillow. 

The pleasure of travel by rail is augmented by 



a guide book that will give in concise terms such 
information as a casual observer would wish to 
gain, as to the towns, cngimcring works and 
liojnis of historic or natural interest that he sees 
from the windows. If he is willing U> take tile 
railroad companys word for it, such a book will 
be given to him on any one of the great truidv 
lines. It is obligingly written l»y an employee 
of the comiiany. It conveys a very high opinion 
of that parli(adar road and a ver}' jioor opinion 
of other roads. When the train jjuIIs in at a 
dusty water station, with a poxcrty-strieken ham 
let of Hungarians planted, higgledy-piggledy, in 
a barren field, and low, monotonous hills environ- 
ing the place, the tourist will be surprised to 
learn that this is a town with a future, that the 
scenery and hotels are tine, the society select, 




NEW VOItlv CEXTKAL— COMPAKT.MKNT CAU. 

the air bracing, no malaria, no moscpiitos, and the 
comnuitation fare is 85 cents. On the maps, too. 
the railroad on which you are traveling is always 
ten miles wide and runs straight across the country, 
l)ulling cities, lakes and cataracts out of their places 
by a kind of magnetic attrac-fion. in order to make 
themselves reached by this line. So perhaps it is as 
well, if you want to get the facts, to buy yoiu- 
guicU' hook of some disinterested publisher. 



A nuTiber of the most prominent business men of this City have BULLINGER'S MONITOR GUIDE at their 

residences. It is very convenient for family u?e. 



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From July ist to September 2Sth inclusive, daily except Sundays, The White Mountain 
Express, with \'estibuled Buffet Parlor and other Cars, will leave Grand Central Station, New York, 
New Haven & Hartford R.R. at 900 a.m., due at Fabyans or at Jefferson at 7.30 p.m., making direct 
connection at White River Junction, and at Wells River for the Green Mountain Resorts, or for 
Newport. Montreal, Quebec, tS:c. 

The 4.00 p.m. train from New York on week-days, will connect at Springfield with train having 
Through Sleeping Cars to Fabyans, due at 8. 45 a.m. 

The New York, New Haven & Hartford R.R. is the only line running Through 

Express Trains to the popular Berkshire Hills ReSOrtS— Sheffield, Great Harrington, Stock- 
bridge, Lee and Lenox. It is the only direct all rail route to New London, Watch Hill, Narragansett 
Pier, Newport, Providence, Boston, Bar Harbor and other Eastern Resorts. 

Parlor Car Seats or Sleeping Car Berths may be engaged in advance at Parlor 
and Sleeping Car Ticket Office, Grand Central Station. 

^^ Information as to Routes, Rates, List of Hotels and Boarding Houses will be furnished 
on application to any Agent of New York, New Haven i^ Hartford R.R., or to 

C. T. HEMPSTEAD, General Passenger Agent, 

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\^:^^-f^ C'hariiiing Daylight Sail through LOIVG ISLAIVD, 

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3^^^CJ View of pietiiresqiie iVOVA (SCOTIA and of the bold. 

^^^'<^ rugged XEW FOUXDLAXD COAST. Abundance of 

^ FISHIXG and .SHOOTIXG in season. The only 

country in (lie civilized world that can boast of 

herds of 3.5 O CARIBOU DEER. 

An Ocean Voyage at one-quarter the Cost of Going to Europe, and a 
GREATER CHANGE OF AIR AND SCENE. 

Fare— FIRST C.4BIX, including .Meals and Stateroom Berth, HALIFAX, $16.00; ST. JOHIVS. $34.00 ; 
PILLEY'S ISLAIVD, S^O.OO. RETURX TICKETS AT REDUCED RATES. 

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RAILROAD TRAVliL FuR PLEASURE. 



means, tlio niilroad o:ivps an opportunity for al 
least a partial li'ratiticatidu of his drsirc. A trip 
across the conliMcnt tiiirty years an-o toolc weeks 
of time, nobody knows how inucli money, and 

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exposed the traveler to dang'er from red men and 
more savage Avliite ones. One can now make a 
satisfactory trip from coast to coast and back in 
thirty days, spend more than two weeks of that 
time in rest or sight-seeing, and the expenses will 
be much less than for a European trip of the same 
duration. To go from New York to London, 
3,100 miles, tlrst-class, costs $100 to $650, accord- 
ing to cabin accommodation. To go from New 
York to San Francisco or Vancouver, and return, 
about (J,oOO miles, including through passage in 
sleeper, with one berth (or hail a section) costs 
$189, to which should be adiled the cost of 
meals. For ordinary sight-seeing, travel in first- 
class trains, sleepers, dining cars, etc., etc, with 
board at the best hotels in tlie large cities, it is 
safe to figure on $9 to $10 a day, unless there 
arc frequent very long riuis on "Limited trains," 
on which it is easy to spend $25 to $30 a day. 
For a run of two or more nights it is wiser 
to take a through sleeper, as it is about as cheap 
as it would be to travel in the ordinary cars l)y 
day and engage berths separately for each nights 
sleep ; beside which, it is much more comfortable.' 
to be assured of a place, free from interruption, 
anil to have a spot Avhere yon can leave books 
and light luggage with a certainty of finding 
them again ; a place, too, where you may go to 



bed as early as yf)u like and sleep as late as 
y<Mi please in the morning. You caimot always 
'lo llial in hiring a berth by the night, a 'run" 
sonicliiiirs teniiiinliiig at 5 or (i o'clock in the 
MKuning, thougli t lie porters an; not prompt to 
eject you at sucli ;in liour if you cross their 
lialnis with silver. Sonic people can double them- 
selves up and do/e in an ordinary car scat, but 
such a sleep is liroken and leaves one feeling 
wretchedly. Civili/ed man reipdres a place where 
he can undress, lie at length on clean linen and 
make his toilet in the mornini;:. 

A man wants to be awake, refreshed and com- 
fortable to thorouglily enjoy the ocean-like plains 
of the nnd-continein. the canons of the Kockies, 
the craggy, glaciated peaks of the Selkirks, tiie 
lakes and forests of the northwest. And to name 
these plact'S is lo suggest the dependence of tiie 
traveler on the railroad as a means of seeing tliem 
at all. 3Inch of the grandest, most curious and 
beautiful scenery in our land is far from hotels 
and s( tt lein( nts. unthreaded l)y wagon wa\'s. and 
the only way to see it is from the train window 
or the ])latl'orm of an observation car. 

A i)erson who can pay for all the comforts 
offered by the railroads, and docs not intend to 
get far from their lines, has little need to trouble 
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trip, changes of linen — or better, of clu'viot, 
mailra.s or fiannel. for starched linen is poor stuff 
to travel in — a rubber coat or mackintosli, toilet 
articles, a watch and a couple of books are enough. 



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Sharon Springs, The Gravity R.R., Etc., 

AND THE SHORTEST, QUICKEST AND BEST ROUTE BETWEEN 

NEW YORK and MONTREAL. 

ANTHRACITE COAL ONLY. NO SMOKE. NO DUST. 

The route via Lake Champlain, Lake George, Saratoga and the Hudson 
River is the greatest highway of summer pleasure travel in America. 

SEIVD SIX CEKTS Ii\ STAMPS FOR ILLISTRATED GUIDE TO 

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Delaware & Hudson R. R. station and steamboat pier in the hotel grounds. 
All trains and boats stop. The natural stopping point for tourists to and from 
Montreal and the Adirondacks. Vast and magnificent panoramic views of 
Green and Adirondack Mountains and Lake. A lofty and airy situation. 
Sanitary arrangements perfect. 

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RAILROAD TRAVEL FUR I'LKASL'RE. 



The great lliing t:) be dono on a railway joiir- 
luy. as on all vacation Irips. is to free your niind 
of l)iisin;'ss and rcsiiiinsil)ilily , not to care a six 
pence whrther the ti'ain gets anywliere on time 
or not, to Avateli tlie scenery wlien it ])a\s to 
do so. read einertaining books w hi ii it do;'S not, 
keep cool an<l clean, eat and sleej) well and be 
idle gracelully. Do not tell other people about 
your lix'er or your polities or }'our reliLiion. if 
you have either of these things, and if ihey I it 
to tell you about theirs, switch them oil' upnn 
scit'uce, anecdotes, scenery or ciu'ars. The " liL;hter 



you fly" as to luggage tlic more casy-niinded and 
indepenih'Ut you will l»e. i'\)r siiort distances, 
with fre(pient stops, ci'owded c:irs and coMstantly 
changing a.ssociates, the railroad is to bo coii- 
sidered as a means ; but for long trips, especially 
through a thiidy settled country, where there is 
lillle "way trallic" and w hi i-e the scenery is 
superb, the journey l)y rail is suHicienl to itself. 
.Many p 'oplc run over to Kuro|)e. spending but three 
or fiiiir days ashore, just for the sake of the ocean 
trip. A land \'oyage is even better worth while, 
since there are in;dters of interest all the wav. 



THE IDYLLIC CONNECTICUT. 



DUNNING parallel with the Unison, at a dis- 
^ tance of only sixty or seventy miles from it, the 
Connecticut shares many of its scenic as well as 
its physical and geographic attributes, though the 
cutting down of forests has diminished the amount 
of water that goes over it. Charles Dickens ascend- 
ed to Springfield on a steamer. Now a boat seldom 




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HOLYOKE UA.\I. 

gets to Hartford without sticking in the mud. But 
in spite of this rcdative sparsity of water, it is an 
ex(iuisite stream. To measure beauty oiw does 
not require a yard stick or a sounding line. The 
lower forty miles of its cour.se may be traversi'd 
by steamer; sloops are available for a little way 
beyond, but it soon becomes a matter of row 
boats and eventually of canoes— or bai-e feet. 'Inhere 
are .li'ood roads beside or near the Connectic\it for 
much of its length, and a pedestrian t(mr or drive 
over them will be pleasantly remembered. Even 



the railroad journey that keeps you in sight of 
the stream, olf and on, from its mouth to Wiiite 
River Junction is an agreeable; experietice. 

It is well to arrange; a journey so that it shall 
]>rescnt a constant increase of interest. Dn not 
go from till' mountains to the plains. You would 
not care to see the parish church after the cathe- 
dral. Hivers often pre- 
sent romantic scenery in 
their upper reaches, but 
"jieterout" when among 
the swamjw and levels 
near their mouths. The 
traveler seeing the Rhine 
or Hudson for the first 
time should .see it on the 
ascent, and this holds good 
of the Connecticut. If no 
more were seen of it than 
the mos(iuito filled 
marshes near its exit into 
Long Island Sound he 
would vote the river to 
be a Inunbug. But when 
the Haddams are reached 
— South Haddam, Middle 
lladdam, Iladdamville, 
Haddam Bridge and the rest, whose exasperating 
iteration caused one .sleepy rustic to wish the 
devil had 'em— the baidvs show height and are 
gracefully wooded, and the farm house roofs 
riiaf peep from the foliage suggest comfort, 
thrift and hajipiness. Middletown, like its name- 
sake in the Empire State, is the seat of a large 
insane asylum, but otherwise is of no stirring 
interest. Portland, across the river, is where they 
(piarry the brownstone with which so many of 
those monotonous rows in upper New York City 



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HIGHLAND BEACH 

The Popular Excursion Resort. 



On the Sandy Hook 
Peninsula. ^ 

ACCESSIliLE by Steamers direct to Highland Beach Pier, via N.Y. & Long Branch Line, 
from foot of jane St , aud liy Steamer "Little Silver," fr 'm foot of Little West 12tli St. 
Excursion tare by both Lines, 50 cents. Also via • legant fast Steamers of "Sandy Hook 
Route," from foot Rector Street; excursion fare, $1.'20. Also by all raii. Central R.R. of 
N. J , foot Liberty Street. For lime cf Boats ai.d Trains consult Bullinger's Monitor 
Guide, for "Steamboats NOT on Hud.sun River." 

For other information, address HIGHLAND BEACH IMPROVEMENT CO 



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Cool, Quiet, Select, Delighiful, 

Unequalled Ocean Bathing and River 
Swimming, Fine Sailing, Rowing, Fishing, 
Crabbing, All Amusements. Bowling. 

FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT, LUNCH 
AND BAR. 



143 Broadway, New York. 



THE MOST DELIGHTFUL SAIL FOE, PLEASURE SEEKERS ! 

THE NEW AND FAST STEAMER ^ FOR 

LITTLE SILVER, 

I L 

J Branch, 

On Week Days and Sundays at 9.15 a.m.; 



Leaving from Pier 59 (old number) N. R 

Two blocka below 14th Street. 



Highland Beach, Seabright, 

Long" P LEASURE gAY AND 

|V|QNlviOUTH PARK, 



Landing at Battery Pier 25 minutes later. 
FBEIGHT RECEIVED from 7.00 A.M. to 7.00 P.M. 



EXCURSION TICKET, 50 CENTS. 



SINGLE TICKET, 35 CENTS. 



Making connections at PLEASURE BAY with Street Cars to BROADWAY and WEST END 
R.R. STATION, LONG BRANCH, where passengers can take R.R. train for ASBURY PARK, 
OCEAN GROVE, BELMAR, POINT PLEASANT, and all points on N.Y. & Long Branch R.R. 

!:»" The very best accommodation for Horses and Carriages. 



West End Hotel and Cottages, 

LONG BRANCH, N. J., 
Opens about the m.ddle of June for the Season of 1895. 

I'hiii^ can be seeii ami rooms engugeil at New York Office, 
52 Broadway, (Room 39.) 

I) M. if ir. E. HILOUETII, I'mprietars. 

Mannahassett House and Park, 

West Bank of the Shrewsbury River, 
OCE.4.\ 500 V ARDb 1)ISTA.\T. FREE BATHS. 

Rooms Large, aiul all conimunicatiiig with CovcrtHl Veranda. 
Cuisine First-Class. Sea Food a Specialty. 
Boating Fishing. Cialibing. 
Reached liy Atlantic Highlands Boat and Train to Monmouth 
Beach; and Steamboats to Pleasure Bay. 

O. B. COLLjyS, Manaijer, P. O. Moiimoutli Beach. 



WHI TE MOUNTA INS. 

The Leading Resort of the White Mountains, 
N. H., for the relief of Hay Fever. 

Twin mountain house. 



For years the Summer Home of the late 
Henry Ward Beecher. Quiet and homelike. 
Season, June 15— October 1. Reasonable 
rates and special inducements to families. 

W. A. BARRON, Manager. 



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THE IDYLLIC CONNECTICUT. 



liiivo boon built. Foot-prints of gi,c:;intio lizards tramps, rides ; 
of the roptiliau a,^•(' arc tound in this rock. 

About Glastonbury the lovoly liolds, with their 
elms, extending; to the blue liills on tlic cast and 
west, are overflowed in tlie iieavy freshets of tiie 
Spring. Perhaps some of their velvety greeimess 




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CONNECTICUT RIVER AT WINDSOR LOCKS. 

is due to that fact. A few miles farther and we 
reach Hartford, tlie richest city for its si/.e in 
America, and one of great beauty. Here the 
traveler should note the old and new State Houses, 
the nobly-placed Trinity College, the asylums, the 
great factories, the pretty 
park Avitli its muddy river 
and the picturesque soldiers 
arcli. He should by ail 
means ride or ramble out 
to Prospect Hill for the 
view, though a still better 
one is offered from Taleott 
IVIountain, nine miles west- 
ward, and he should cross 
the Connecticut to East 
Hartford and stroll under 
the canopy of splendid old 
elms that overhang the 
street. There are more 
such at Windsor, Long 
M e a d o w, N( )rtliampton, 
Easthampton and other vil- 
lages along the river, l)ut 
none so near a city yet so 
filled Avith sylvan beauty. 
Of the manv deliuhtful 



md bicycle runs that are feasiljlc from 
this town, few are more int<'rcsting than to tiic old 
Newgate Prison at Granby, witii its dungeons and 
copper mines where the piisoners ouco worked iis 
tiiey now do in Siberia. 

At Enlieid, tiiree miles east of tlic station, the 

. , Shakers have, a .settlement, 

and ii study of tiiese curi- 
ous enthusiasts, cleanly, 
industrious, vcgct arian, 
" monks and mins without 
bolts and liars," will jus- 
tify a pause. 'I'lien on, 
through a land of thrift 
and comfort t<iSi)ringtield, 
with '>i).i»») wcli-lion.scd 
people 'I'lKMigh anagrer-- 
ablc city, the tourist will 
not lind much licrc of in- 
terest exceiit in the 'Jnitnl 
Stall s .Vrmory, and it will 
])ay liini to vi.sit tliat to 
see the perfection at which 
the art cf killing lias ar- 
rived. Let him also climb 
the arsenal tower and ol)- 
tain a comiu-chcusive and 
charming view ; Init an 
ampler one awaits him 
from the sunuuit of either 
.Mount Holyoke, on the 
east side of the river, or 
.Mount JS'onotuck, a jog 
of the Mount Tom range, 
on the west side. These 
heights luake a better fulfilment than a promise, 
for their tops are only l.KIO feet above the sea, 
but tlie surrounding country, being comparatively 



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flat, unfolds to the view like a great garden, edged 
with misty hills. From West Rock, seventy miles 





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FROM E.VSTIIAMI'TOX. 



eULLINGER'S MONITOR GUIDE has time-tables of all Trains, Boats and Steamers running from and to 
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RICHARD PECK (the "Plyerofthe Sound") and C. H. NORTHAM, 

Leave Pier 25 and 26 East River Peck Slips at 3.00 p.m. and 1 1 .OO p.m., except Sundays. 



Only Steamers connecting / 

with Railroads at r 

New Haven. fcate- 

Cars run to Steamers ^R; 

Dock. May 15th to ^^ 
November 1st. 




Through Tickets for all 
points North, via New York, 
New Haven & Hartford RR. 
and connections. 



GEEEN MOUNTAINS, WHITE MOUNTAINS, MONTREAL, QUEBEC, and Intermediate Points. 

FREIGHT WAY-BILLED THROUGH, under Joint Tariffs with Quick Dispatch and 

unequalled facilities. 
Passenger and Freight Rates given on application to 

RICHARD PECK, Superintendent. WILLIAM SCOTT, Agent. 

GENERAL OFFICE, Pier 25 East River. 



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OLD AND POPULAR ROUTE TO AND FROM 

" '^"^^^^J.'r TH. Shore Line, 

TRAINS LEAVE 

Grand Central Station. 

5 00 AM 10 0.3 AM 

1 00 PM 5 00 PM 

12 00 night. 

On Sundays at 12 00 night, 
Connecting at Wickford 
Junction. 
Through time 6 hours. 

Parlor and Sleeping Oars. 

For full time-table see 
■'Newport & Wickford R.R" 
in BuUinger's Monitor 
tiuide. 




QUICKEST ROUTE TO NEWPORT VIA 

& WICKFORD RAILROAD & STEAMBOAT CO. 

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International Steamsliii) Comjany. 

THE FAVORITE ROUTE BETWEEN 

Boston, Portland, Eastport, Lubec and 

Calais, Me., St. Andrew's, Campobello, 

Grand Manan and St. John, N. B., 

Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island 

and Cape Breton. 

July to September, daily service ex- 
cept Sunday. Other seasons of the year 
two and three trips per Week. See daily 
papers, Boston, or ask your nearest Ticket Agent for detailed information, or write to 

E. A. WALDRON, General Agent, BOSTON. 




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THE IDYLLIC COXNLC llCU F. 



south, to ]\I(inadnofk, fifty miles north, it is :i roll 
iug sea of green, with nearly forty towns dotting the 
fair ex])anse. Comfortable hostelries stand ato]) of 
each niouiilain, and a night in one of them, with 
the stars glittering above. Ihe cities glilteiiiig 
below, and the wind roar- 
ing in Ihe woods, gives r "'ii • ■ — • " •• • ■ 

one an odd sense of isola- ' 
tion. : 

Unless one has a me- 
chanical bent, the cities of 
Chicopee and Ilolyoke, 
with their mills and foun- 
dries, Avill not stay him 
long, for here the Connec- 
ticut is momentarily com- 
pelled to man's service ; 
but he will be delighted 
with Xorthampton, called, 
sixty years ago, the most 
beautiful village in Amer- 
ica, with its fine schools; 
and Old Hadley, Hatfield, 
the Deerlieids and Green- 
field beyond. For, after 
he has ,i;()t well away from 
the cities, the fine flavor 
of New England will come 
to him. He will detect it 
in the doings and onh'r- 
ings of a people who are 
still, peaceable, practical, 

poetic and pious, shrewd, economical, })rosperous, 
fair-minded and content; lineal descendants of tiie 
Puritans who made America. The region is as 
full of history ami romance as it is of beauty. 



Iliu-rying or loitering through tins grateful valley, 
he will come in lime to Brattleboro, a prosiMions 
town with charming drives and inspiring climbs 
around it ; then to Ihe brawling liellows Falls with 
its 42 foot plunge lliidugh a rocky labyrinth; thin 




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DAM AT TURNERS FALLS. 



CONNECTICUT lUVi:i{, AHOVE HOLYOKE 

to Charlestown, N. IL, whose most distinguished 

resident. Charles Iloyt, has given us pt'eps at it in 
•A Hole in the Ground," " A IMidnight Bell," and 

other freaks. On the opposite, or Vermont side of 

the Connecticut are the falls 

_„„,,^„__.._„______, of Black River. Claremont 

with its paper mills, and 
the ('X(iuisite Suna])ee Lake 
— "the Loch Katrine of 
America" — are a few miles 
east, but Windsor is in our 
northward way, and a days 
stop here is in order for the 
ascent of Mount Ascutney, 
a tall, lonely and conunand- 
ing peak, affording a glori- 
ous outlook from its rocky 
crest. The Hartlands and 
White River Junction will 
not detain us. but we can 
jiass a day with profit in 
and about Hanover, the seat 
of Dartmouth College, with 
its library, gallery and 
museum, its shaded campus 
and its gracious views. 

Here the journey along 
the Connecticut may be said 
to end, unless the traveler 




A number of the most prominent business men of this City have BULLINGER'S MONITOR GUIDE at their 

residences. It is very convenient for family use. 



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Only DIRECT LINE to COTTAGE CITY, Mass., and PORTLAND, Me., 

Making close connections at Portland with all Railroads and Steamer Lines for 

Bar Harbor, Old Orchard^ Poland Springs, 

White Mountains, Rockland, Bangor, 

East port and St. John, N.B.,and all 




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E ASTERN SUMMER RESORTS. 

Leave Pier .^8 E.I!., foot of Market Street, every Tviesday, 
Tliiir.sday aud Saturday at oOO p.m., and leave Portland every 
Tne.sday, Tliiirsday and Saturday at G 00 ii.ni., affording a 

Short and Delightful Sea Voyage of 26 Hours. 

Special Summer Service. — In addition to the regular 
tri-wi^cldy sii\i.i', tin' idc-aiit siile-wheel steamer TKEMONT 
(1,427 tonsi haviiiff superior jtassene/e?' accommodations, will be 
dispatched as follows: from Pier .^S East River, New Yorlc, at 
5 00 p.m., for Cottage City and Portland, July :i, 8, 1-2, 17, 22, 
From Portland, at Coo jlui., on July 1, 5, lo, If., I'.i, 24 and 211; >'igust 2, 



26 and 31 ; August .">, '.i, 14, l:<, - 
7, 12, 10,21, 2(i and 30. 

Full particulars given on application to HORATIO HALL, Agent, Pier 38 East River, New York. 

TELEPHONE, "81 FRANKLIN." 



PoBTLAMB Steam Packit Co., 



DAILY LINE BETWEEN 

BOSTON, Mass. and 



PORTLAND, Me. ^; 



THE NEW AND PALATIAL STEAMERS 



PORTLAND, 

2,253 Tons. 



BAY STATE, 

2,215 Tons. 






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Leave INDIA WHARF, BOSTON, and 
FRANKLIN WH ARF, PORTLAN D, at 7.00 
P.M., arriving in season for convenient 
connection with all diverging lines- 

The elegant " OCEAN TRIPS " of this old -- . ,^-''" 

estalilisliecl line, afford the most convenient • 

and comfortable means of tr-ansponalion between BOSTON and POHILAND. The Steamers are 
built exjoressiy for this I'oute, and are fitted with every modern appliance for comfort and luxury. 

THE MOST ENJOYABLE EXOUESION ON THE EASTERN COAST. 

FARE, $1.00 each way. STATE ROO.'VIS, "li;! OO to !«'*00 eatli. Time of passage about 8 hours. 
gl.M) VV TRIP.S from middle of Juue to middle of September. TIlROrCH TICKETS to Northern and 
Eastern Resorts C?^ Send for Cireulars. 

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THE "iSM^D 6EyWMED" ©ASGO BAY. 

The Ideal Summer Resort of Maine. 

Steamers FOREST CITY. FOREST 
QUEEX, EMITA and CADET, maintain 
a regular Daily Serviee between PORT- 
LAND, iVIE., and the following Islands: 
PEAK'S, CrSHII\G'S, LITTLE DIA- 
]>IO\D, GREAT DIAMOi\D, EVER- 
GREEX, TREFETHEI\'S and 
LOi\G ISLAND. 

After June :tOth, 1895, trips are made 
every hour. 

Case® ^^J 

Send for Polder, Map, &c., giving eomplete time-table. 

C. W. T. CODING, General Manager, PORTLAND, MAINE. 




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THE IDYLLIC COXXKCTICUT. 



Wiints to coutinue along the count rv mads. He can 
profitably extend his trip, if he has lime, to Lake 
IMcniphi-enuiii'oii", Ij!ike('hani|)Iain, Montrcid, (Quebec 
or Ihc White Mountains, for at W'liile IvlNcr .1 unc- 
ti(ni lie is within easy reai'ii of Ihcin all. 



ha|i|)y here 



for, of all 



The A\alker ought to he 
jiarts of the country that 
in\ ite I h e pedesti'iau. 
New England makes the 
strongest appeal. The 
beauty of its scenery, the 
variety of its physical 
features, its relatively 
cool and salubrious cli- 
mate, the su]ieriority of 
its roads to those in the 
Soutli and West, the order 
and safety of its towns 
and villages, the romance 
of its legends and history, 
the charm that its writers 
have thrown about it, the 
kindly nature and quaint 
speech of its people, and 
tile quiet and comfort of 
its inns, are alluring to 
those who prefer to spend 
their vacations in travers- 
ing fresh fields and pas- 
tures new, to dawdling 
on the crowded piazzas of summer hotels. 

Now, as to the disposition of time, where time is 
limited : leaving New York in the evening, so as to 
gain a day, we will suppose a straight run to Hart- 
ford by train, direct ; or what is better, by lioat, 
thus enjoying the ])eautiful river scenery above 
the Haddams, in the early morning hours. A 
ramble to Prospect Hill and back, passing the deaf 
and dumb asylum and the hcnises of Mark Twain, 
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Charles Dudley Warner, 



his lunch on Mount Xonotuck or Mount Ilolyoke, 
to descend and dine and sleep in Norihani|)lon. 

The third day can be broken at Bratlleboro and 
Pxllows Falls to advantage, and perhaps a run to 
Claremonl can be ineiude(| bifore pulling up for 
the night at Windsor, 





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Falls, \L. 
TICUT KIVKK AT BELLOWS FALLS. 

The fourth day may be devoted to a leisurely 
ascent and descent of Ascutnej', carrying a snack 
to be eaten at the summit, and the fifth day can 
be spent in the academic- shades of Dartmouth. 

The hotel charges are not extravagant at any of 
these places, and horse and trolley cars and stages 
facilitate short excursicms. The fare will amount 
to about $l.-).()0, and $8.00 a day will cover reason- 
able expenses for food and lodging. 

Allowing a ilay for the return, this disposes of six 



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CONNECTICUT lilVEK— PORTLAND, CONN. 



a visit to the art gallery and historical museum, 
a walk through the park, a ride along Main street 
and a glance at East Hartford, are easily possible 
the first day, and the traveler may ride on to 
Springfield before dark. On the second day. an 
early view of the armory will enable him to take 



(lavs. If there is more time the following division of 
extra days is suggested: New Haven, one day; Talcott 
.Mountain (from Hartford) one-half day ; walk from 
Northampton through Old Hadley and Deerfield, one- 
half day; falls at Springfield, Vt., one-half day; Suua- 
l)ee Lake, one and one-half days; four additional days. 



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ALFRED B. SANDS & SON, 

YACHT PLUMBERS 

.... AND MANUFACTURERS OF .... 

YACHT PLUMBING SPFXIALTIES. 

Pump Water Closets for above or below water line. 

Folding Lavatories for Yacht and Launch use. 

VENTILATORS, COPPER, BRASS and IRON. 

Pumps, Bilge, Deck, Basin, Sink ^ Galley, in Copper ^:i^ Brass. 

GALVANIZED IRON WATER TANKS. -^ 

-^ OIL TANKS AND AIR TANKS. 

Our No. 3 Water Closet occupies space 17 x 14 inches, and weighs only 
50 pounds completed in boat. 

Our Folding Lavatory measures 19 x 15 x 3^4 inches, and weighs only 18 
pounds. The smallest and most complete fixture on the market, and the only 
one suitable for yacht use. 

t^° Write for information if you are building, or contemplate building or alterations. 

134 Beekman Street, NEW YORK. 

Steam Vessel and Yacht Agency. 

M. HUBBE. 



NAVAL ^^:^mrHS^ MARINE 




ARCHITECT and i^^^^^M^A^ #%™ ENGINEER. 



22 State Street, NEW YORK. 



All classes of Steam Vessels, Steam Yachts, etc., modelled and designed for 
steel, iron or wood, their construction superintended or contracted for, complete, 
ready for use. 

^3* — EIGHT DRAFT VESSELS A SPECIALTY ^x 

For Sale and Charter— Large Selection of Schooners, Sloop and Steam Yachts. 
Launches and Steam Y'essel Property generally. Owners desiring to sell will find 
this Agency a reliable and quick medium by sending full particulars, price and photo. 
No charges made unless a sale is effected. 



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AN OUTING ON A COASTER. 



'T'O a youns: man who has a hit of that spice in 
liis nature whicli us((l to animate tlie Aincr- 
icMii youtli of tile eiirlier \r.iv\ of tliis century, 
there is a stronii' attniclion in the sea. Now. 
anybody can go to si'a, and tiie way to do so is 
ma(h' plain and exjiensive ])\ lines of steamers 
o]teratini>" over every part of the globe, where il 
is worth while to run them. That is not going 
to sea though, in the old and jiroix'r sense, aiul 

there is a lu'w 
experience 




\ '; in store for 

tile tourist who 
wants to take his 
ocean strong, so to speak, and live directly in con- 
tact with it. He can get that exjierience from a 
week in a coasting schooner, altliougli it is not 
every one who can or will take him, because the 
multiplying and improvement of steamships has 
made it less and less of an advantage to sailing 
vessels to carry passengers. A generation ago it 
was no unusual thing for captains of small 
vessels to take passengers on trips to their (h's- 
tinations — up to the British Provinces, into the 
labyrinthine .aulfs of jMaiiie. down to Flori<la. or 
over to the Bermudas. The Nova Scotia girls 
who were valued as housemaids in the days 
before we got to looking to Europe for our help 
— and precious little lull) most of it is — came to 
our cities on coasters, as incidents to the trade in 
lumber, stone and tisli. 

Compared with going to sea in an ocean liner, 
a trip in a 'long shore schooner is as cani[)iiig out 
in the woods is to stopping at a five dollar a-day 
hotel. And that is the charm of the w hole thing: 
it is roughing it, with a vengeance. Passage, 
when it can be secured, is low in price. On such 
vessels it used to average hardly more than a 
dollar a Inindred miles, and when one tiiinks how 
much time that means, and jiow many meals it 
incurs, it will be seen that nothing farther could 
be expected in the way of cheapness. The captain 
will probably be unable to understand why 30U 
want to 2:0 with him when there are so many 



coinforlnble boats running, but if you succeed in 
talking him over, you will enjoy your trip, if you 
enjoy the sturdy, uneonveiit ioiial side of things. 
In a voyage (if this sort it is impo.ssible to 
reckon accurately on the time il will take. With 
favoring bree/es you can make a run in a dav over 
a course that |iei-haps you will s|)rii(l a week in 
covering on (he return. Tlie roiilc to the north- 
ward is Id be preferred, ordinarily, to a run in 
a soullierly direction, because the coast north of 
Cape Cod is ])i(t ures((ue all the way to the Arctic, 
while the coast that stretches southward from tlie 
same Cajie is dull and Hat, agreeable for bathing 
and lounging, but utterly wanting in s<'enic in 
terest. These small \-essels do not stand out 
so far to sea in their trijis as larger 
ones, and in such a run as that from 
I Boston to St. .John a schooner 

c -..- 'T ■ will keep so well in to shore 

'^' — that a jianoramic view of the 

whole Maine coast will be af- 
j5-~ forded, and that \ lew is a 

jikv . matchless one. 

Let it be understood that this voyage 
is not commended to women nor to delicate young 
men. Old men are too settled in their habits to 
enjoy it, and dudes are too tender to endure it. It 
is distinctly a sort of vacation that ajipeals to the 
young, strong and adventurous. 'Plie life will be 
rough, the crew may be rough, tlunigh good 
hearted, the meals will range from poor to 
awful, the smells in tlie cabin (which in most 
of tluse schooners is likewise the forecastle) will 
not be appetizing, the motion in a heavy sea will 
lie so violent that the plunging of an ocean grey- 
hound will seem in comparison 
as a drowsy loll in a rocking 
chair; but the voyager will 
return strong and tough and 
l)rown, and full of knowledge M 
about sea life that he would not ^^,^ 
get if he crossed to Europe in i-^*^ ^ 
the finest "Liner" twice a year. 








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For Shooting and Fishing .... 

^■^^■^^^c^"-^^ T^RV the territory traversed by the lines of the 

CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE AND 
ST. PAUL RAILWAY. 

Some of the best Deer shooting in the country is to be 
had in Northern Wisconsin and the Peninsula of Michigan. 

Prairie chickens, Ducks, Geese, Partridge, etc., are plentiful 
along its lines in Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and North 
Dakota. 

For fishing — Trout, Bass, Muscollonge, etc. — there are 
numberless streams and lakes in Wisconsin, Minnesota and 
the Peninsula of Michigan. 




AMONG THE LAKES 

of Wisconsin, Peninsula of Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa and South Dakota are 
hundreds of delightful places where one can pass the Summer months in quiet rest 
and enjoyment, and return home at the end of the headed term completely rejuvenated. 



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and a newly revised "List of SuM^^•:K Resorts" along the line, to 

GEORGE H. HEAFFORD, General Passenger Agent, CHICAGO, ILL. 

NEW YORK OFFICE, No. 381 Broadway, E. F RICHARDSON 
General Agent, Passenger Department. 

BOSTON OFFICE. No. 210 Washington Street (Old State House), CHAS. A, BROWN, 

New England Passenger Agent 



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AN OUTIXG ON A COASTFR. 



Tlic outfit for such a trij) can he as inexpensive 
as tlie trip itself. Simply take your oldest clot lies. 
A -wanu overcoat is desirahle. and if any article 
is bouiiiit expressly for the trip it niiu-jit l)e a 
sou'wester, to pi'otect the head from cold rains 
and drenchiii 



seem to mind, as a landsman does, the mouldy odor 
that |)ervadcs the spaces helow decks. Ha vim,' 
Iluis assured himself that lie is nritlier to he frozen 
nor starved, the passenu:er can now turn his alien 
tinn to enjoynieiil, and tin re is ii <,'o(»d deal of il, 



-• mists. The clothes sold to sailors of a new kind, especially for the jadi'd city man. 



at what are deservedly called "slop shops," alom 
the water front, are commonly frauds, 'riicy are 
made of shoddy and even their sou'westers leak 
like sieves. A valise will hold all that need he 
taken, and if you are foolish cnouu-h to take 

anythini;- of 
more value 




whiskey and 

cigars, let th(; lock on that valise be strong, for 
it is a grievous fact that some sailors were not 
brought up in a Sunday school. At the same 
time, a few of those cigars, ami perhaps a sly 
nip at that whiskey, wdll make them frienils of 
yours from the start. 

It will he found desirable to take a few deli 
cacies in the way of pickles, lemons, sardines, 
cheese, lime juice or rasplierry vinegar, for the 
water on board is warm, being dipped from a 
barrel that stands in the sun all day, 
and the cuisine has commonly to do with 
salt i)ork, salt mackerel, potatoes, liard 
tack, fresh biscuit and alleged tea and 
coffee. It will be a mercy to the ofHcers 
and crew if you will share some of these 

aboard a day liefore sailing, spyina; 
out the state of the larder and liav- " -i=Ji3t< 
ing a comprehensive iuteryiew with t^" 
the cook, a better idea will lie oh 
tained of what to tak(! and what to ' / i ^'<H| 
omit, for it happens once in a while that' ' 
a coaster goes out with a food supply 
that would really be a credit to a 
boarding house, and has a man for a 
cook who is content to kill his asso- 
ciates with simple indigestion instead 
of active poison. 

Another precaution needful to a proper 
enjoyment of the voyage is a fair supply of 
insect powder. Let the bedding be shaken 
out and aired every day, for that is a matter 
in which sailors are la.\, and they do not 



'l"he bracing sea air, the free, hearty life, the long 
slee|)s, Ihe e.\ercise at the wheel, at the halliards and 
the ca|)slan ; the Ireiiiendoiis yarns spun by the 
older sails; the sight of passing vessels, of rocky 
coasts, of tumbling porpoise and other strange 
marine life; the i)assing lights and shadows that 
make the sea as changeable as a piece of silk: the 
trumpeting of the storm, the stars above the rock- 
ing masts, the sun rising out of the Hood, the 
moon tracking silver Jicross Ihe crisping 
IS, the milky phosphorescence 
on dark nights; the clang of 
hells, tooting of horns and 
hoarse roar of whi^llrs in a 
fo,<i"; the trollin.ir alongside, the 
sjiearing of doIi)liins, jxirpoises 
or sunfish ; th(! warm lazy 
mornings, curled up before the 
break of the cabin with a pijie, 
or the greater security for 
|iri\acy and (piiet tluit is alTorded by the cross trees, 
given over to light reading or to dreams; the daily 
discoveries anent the lite on the deep and those who 
go to sea in shi])s; the tricks of the elements — 
these are factors in a vacation that probably not 
one young man in twenty thousaiul has ever 
undertaken. All di'pends, of course, on tinding a 
captain who will agree to take you. If you get 
his consent you must be prepared to undergo 
some discomforts — no more, probably, than you 
would eneoiuiter in camp — and you will get on 
much lu'lter, if you will siilimit 'o them with 
hearty good nature, since they are inevitable under 
the circumstances. Take what bunk can be spared 
for you, do not demand pie at a table where 
Map-jacks are a lu.xury. do 
not scold and comiilain and 
make yourself a wonder and 
a subject of ridicule among 
tiie sailors, and if you have 
any "sporting blood" in you, 
the vacation in the cabin and 
on d( ck of a coasting 
schooner will he one to 
look hack upon with 
genu i ne satisfaction ; 
bearing fruits of strug- 
gles with the inner and 
the outer man. A 
new man, with ap- 
petite tutiircd and 
sharpened by de- 
nials; with a vitality 
and ner\ e h)rce re- 
vived and strength- 
J ened b\' contact with nature 
1 in her most beautiful and 
' refreshing phases; with 




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AN OUTING ON A COASTER. 



power to take up and aoeomplisli more than any 
other possible hfe avouUI give; the experienee, 
like tlie heaeon lights that have been seen sending 
tiieir silver slieen over the waters, will ilhiinine 
many an after hour. 

The expense of sneh an outing 
should be very moderate. The 
extras to be taken along can be 
measured up by ones own inelina- / 
tioiis — they are not 
necessary, merely pleas- 



will l)e cliarged will not 

probably be more than 

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you can load up with 

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will be so welcome that 

the fare will become a 

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and it will not hurt you a bit to 

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A: ("o. , -17 Water Street ; 
Itaekett S:, Bro., (W Soutii 
Street; II. B. Ilawson 6i Co., 
h'j South Street ; a jxTsonal 
call on the above will be better 
than iii((niries b\' letter. 

In ease tlu; time for the out- 
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THREE DAYS IN THE CATSKH.LS. 



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T^IIE Catskills are a blessing to New^ York and 
* the big cities around it, that the cities have 
been slow to appreciate. The White Mountains, 
twice as far away, were supplied 
with good hotels and reasonable 
means of transportation some time 
before the Catskills were : but the 
last nam(»d mountains are now not 
merely convenient in distance but 
have been brought near in time. 
Their charms are cheap and not a 
whit less good for that reason. It 
is a matter of only a fcAv hours to 
get to the heart of them from the 
metropolis, and it is a matter of 
few days to get a good idea of 
their geography and scenery. They 
foriu :i little mountain world, cpiite 
different in grouping and extent 
from either the White Motuitains 
or the Adirondacks. Naturally 
beautiful, their charms have been 
augmented by poetry and legend, 
and j'ou still see the spot where 
Rip Van Winkle slept; where the 
revengeful rival was slain and 
burned by the Indians at the 



w^edding ; where the manitou disguised himself 
as a bear and wlu^re the storm-witch sat as she 
wove the clouds and forged the thunderbolts. 




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NE.\U HAI.COTTSVILLE. 



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River, Thousand Islands, Montreal, Quebec, Lakes Champlain and 
George, White Mountains, etc. 

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Located 1,400 feet above the sea, amidst charming surroundings, 
its wooded shores dotted by hotels of highest excellence, Chautauqua 
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To people desiring to spend the summer ^A^ithin easy reach of New 
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picturesque scenery of Orange, Sullivan and Delaware Counties, New 
York, and Pike County, Pennsylvania, have for years attracted a vast 
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from the modest farm-house to the pretentious summer hotel. 

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Agent in New York City, or by sending five cents in stamps, for 
postage, to 

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TIIRKE DAYS IN Tllli CATSKILLS. 



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~r'A-.VN*t LEAP- 



Evcii the lovers leap is licro, and what place is 
witliout one? Altiionii'li the system exleiids far 
toward the; west and throws out relaled chains 
of hills to the soutli and iiorlh, the tnain uToup 
of the Catskilis may l)e eonsidei-ed as a Irianii'ie 
with one side parallel to the Hudson and aliout 
seven nules t'nun it, another I'unniui;' east and 
west beliind Catskill C'reeiv and the third an 
arbitrary line extendinu- from Xundter Four .Moun- 
tain to Staml'oi'd. 

The reel meu called these heitxhts the ()nlioi'as, 
"hills of the sUy," and w liocNcr has seen theii- 
rounded Iottus swellinii' in the distance, blue as 
the canopy 
in Junt', yet 
changin ii" 
with every 
hour, real 
izes the fit 
ness of till 
name. The.\ 
are luuipu 
ill one re 
spect : the.\ 
are pierced 
by ravines 
still called 
"cloves,"' 
after the 
Dutch fash- 
ion, t li e s c 
cloves leadinu,- 
down from the 
central plateau j 
to the plains or 
river valley. In 
their dark abyss 
es one hears the 
roar of torrents 
and i n earl \ 
morn i n g they 
often brim with 
clouds, which, 
from the sun- 
lighted u p p e r 
regions, resem- 
ble seas co\ered 
with floating ice. 

Not all of the mountain country is yet open 
to travel ; the Shaudaken district, where the tall- 
est, roughest peaks are. being as yet uni)athed. 
But there are many tine hotels, and whether one 
goes afoot, horseback or in a carriage, he need 
never lack shelter or food; that is. in the 
traveled district. If he goes aside from the fre- 
quented townships he must eiiuiji himself heavily, 
as for exploration, and there are reasonable 
chances of meeting deer, bears, skunks and w-ild 
cats. The farmers were formerly hospitable and 
are still decent fellows, but the recent invasion 
by people with money to spend has made them 



J'hotos by J. Loefller, Toiiipkinsvillu, 



somewhat over anxious to get tiieir sliare of it, 
and the hotels offer bitter fare than the board 
h\\s. iiouses. 

'I'd reach the mountains. t;dve the riser boats 
and disembaik ,it (alskill. The old fashioned 
way of reachinLT the summil of the mountains 
was by stage li'oni Cal-^kill, a matter of six or 
sexcn hours, an awfully slow and tedious |iull 
up the mountain side, with far reaihing vistas 
of plain and river and distant mountains, to l)e 
sure, and the old Ki|> \'an Winkle legends and 
atmosphere over all. To-da}' a hardworking little 
narrow guage railway takes you to I'alenville at 
the foot of that wonderful "clove" and the cog- 
wheel rail, jMoperly called llu; "(devaling" rail- 
way, will take you 
from the loot to 
the top o f the 
moinitain in tin 
'iiinutes. 

Supposing one 
lias left New York 
liy the night boat 
and has the follow- 
ing three days 
clear. lie will be 
at the ^Mountain 
1 louse by seven the 
next morning ; liy 
he Day Line Boat 
from New York he 
will reach the 
mountain top 
at 4.:.'U p.m. 
the same day. 
After taking 
in the glori- 
ous view 
from that 
point— a view 
that extends 
over 10,000 
s(iuare miles 
of the Hud- 
son ^■ a 1 le y , 
rinuned b y 
the Takon- 
ics, the Green 

Mountains and the IlighlamU -lie can go past 
the two little lakes to the deep gor.ire into which 
tumbles the falls of the Kaater.skill. Alas for the 
romance: The water is turned on for twenty- 
live cents. But it is worth it. The sudden leap 
of the seething flood is more startling, if not 
more impressive, than the normal flow. The 
creek plunges straight for one hundred and 
eighty feet, and one can walk behind it on a 
narrow ledge and see the landscape through the 
mist ; a second fall is eighty feet high. The 
appearance of the gulf in October, wlien the leaves 
have turned, is wortii many a days journey to see. 




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HOTEL SEWAREN, 



Sewaren, N. J., 



ON ST AT E N ISLAND SOUND, 



SAILING. BOATING. 



FISHING, BATHING. 




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FOOT LIBERTY STREET, 

45 MINUTES. 

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NEW BRUNSWICK, 

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OPENS MAY 1ST. 



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Waldo Sprague, proprietor, 



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THREE DAYS IN THE CATSKILLS. 



Now stroll out to Sunset Rock and take n Ion? 
look into Kaati'iskill ("love, a (k'cp wooded valley 
from whose bottom the mountains rise steeply 



for o\cr 2.000 feet. You can <liiic 



the hole 



near the falls, by the way, and tiicn proceed 

citiicr by wau'on. train or, best of all, afoot to 

Haines C'oi'uers, wlurc you may see 

another fall, tor twenty five cents, 

and u'et a glimpse of the i)retty 

settlement of Twili-ht Park. Then 

throuiih Tannersville to Hunter, by 

train if you will, and there stop for 

the niji'ht. 

On the second day a.scend Hunter 
ISIountain, l)v a jjood [lath, and enjoy 
the view from the observatory. This 
is the tallest of the central Catskills 
and the rock and forest scenery on 
its slope is romantic enough for anj- 
taste. In the afternoon engage a 
carriage, unless you are a tierce 
walker, and drive through Jewett, 
Lexington and Prattsville, with its 
quaintly sculptured rocks, to either 
Grand Gorge or Roxbury. At Grand 
Gorge is the " Divide" from which, 
on one side, the bubbling spring 
sends its water wa'stward through 
the Delaware to find the sea at Cape 
May, and on the east side another 
spring contributes its mite, through 
Esopus Creek, to help swell the 
volume of the Hudstm; the train 
men will show the dividing point 
and the two springs, as the train 
passes through the gorge. The 
scenery here is (piieter than among 
the eastern hills, but it is full of 
loveliness and grace. Here take 
train on the Ulster tt Delaware Road 
to Phoenicia, following Esopus Creek, 
down steep grades, among majestic 
mountains, and put up for the night. You will have 
had a lively day and will have earned your sleep. 

On the third day take train through Stony 
Clove, the deepest, most savage of them all, to 
Kaatcrskill Junction and from there descend on 
foot through Plattckill Clove, one of the loneliest 
and most picturesque to Saugerties, where night 
boat can be taken to New Y'ork. 



This ])rogramme can be diversified endlessly. A 
few days more will enable one to see the western 
end of the mountains, including the cuhninating peak 
MiMint Utsayanlha, and fmni liiglndiun one may 
ascend Slide Mountain, eleven luiles away and 4,200 
feet high, passing the Stale deer park en route. 




Photo, by C. I. Newman, 6G7 Gates Ave., Brooklyn. 

ON TIIK BEAVERKILI.. 



Beautiful and valuable guiilc books with maps 
of the region can be had from the Lines named 
herein, for the cost of postage. 

The fares will be about $7.00. using night 
boats from and to New York, and l)oard at the 
numerous small lintels in the inoiuitains can be 
had for $2.')i) per day. making a three days trip 
in the mountains cost about $13.00. 




Photo, by E. L. 



ESOPrS CHEEK AT SATTGERTrES. 



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WATKINS GLEN. 



Illustrations in this Article from Photos, by J. D. Hope and R. D. Crum, Watkins Glen. 



A PLEASANT excursion is ahvays feasible among 
the thriving towns and fertile farms that con- 
stitute that garden of content which is the center 
of New York state. The scenery is not often 
exciting, for there are no hills that justify the 
name of moimtains, after one has crossed the 
Alleghanies, and there are no wide reaches of 
forest or impressive, unclothed plain. There are, 
however, hidden away in nooks among the hills, 




ravines that present phases of remarkable and 
romantic scenery. There are scores of them that 
deserve to be known to the tourist, but their 
archetype is Watkins Glen, in the pleasant town 
of Watkins, at the head of Lake Geneva, as it 
is sometimes called, or Seneca Lake, as the 
geograi)hers properly name it. 

All ot the ravines like Watkins are cut by the 
ancient ilow of waters through a thick bed of 
old red sandstone, and the streams that performed 



this lapidarj' work were never of large volume. 
As a result the cutting is narrow in proportion 
to its depth, and it is to that circumstance that 
the impressiveness of the glens, as it is common 
to call them, is due. To skim over the country 
and see it from a railway car, it would not be 
thought possible that such canons could be found 
there. 

see Watkins in a day, for the 
walking is not hard and the dis- 
tances are not great. Perhaps 
Havana Glen should be seen first, 
for it first comes in the tourist's 
way as he goes fromElmira north- 
ward. It is nearly the equal of 
Watkins and has not had its deserts 
from the traveler, and in several 
respects it is different from the 
companion glen. It is less 
extravagant in its consti'uc- 
tion, perhaps, though in the 
rock chamber about half way 
up there is a wonderful like^ 
ness to human architecture, 
^rjthe stone seeming to lie in reg- 
ular courses of masonry. It 
lacks the larger spaces of Wat- 
kins, however, is only half as 
long and the stream that falls 
through it is not as large. If 
a person can see but one, see 
Watkins. The sight will re- 
pay the journey. Those who are 
going to Rochester or Niagara 
will find it easy to make the 
journey to the elen as a side trip, 
for it lies only tw^enty miles off 
the main line of the Erie road, 
on the line connecting at Elmira, 
I place that is likewise worth a. 
short stop, to see the well man- 
aged reform school. 

Arrived at Watkins one finds 
himself in a (julet, old-fashioned place of 3,000 people, 
tlie public buildings on the village green recalling 
those of New England in their pseudo-classic archi- 
tecture. If the traveler is flying light of baggage he 
can leave his traps at the restaurant where he dines 
or breakfasts — for if he desires to save money he 
need not put up at a hotel — or he can leave his 
bag at the lodge where he pays admission to the 
glen. It is a walk of only a few rods from this 
lodge to the back of a theater of rock where. 



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WATKINS GLEN. 



through a narrow rift, a crystal stream is drop- 
ping. A stair of wond msccikIs beside tiie stre;iiii 
and on cliinbinii- il tiic tourist linds liiiuscif in 
tiie shadowy dcpllis of ihe glen. Il is now a]i- 
parent that in a place like this he owes a good 
(k'al to man, even if man. in the shape of a 
ticket-taker, demands all that he tiiinks is due to 
Inm, and a little by way 
of interest. 

Without the stairs, the 
l)aths and Ihe shelves cut 
along the k'dges, it would 
be impossible to see the 
place, save at peril to limb 
or life, and even then the 
views wovdd not be as satis- 
factory as they are now. 
The paths and stei)s are 
constructed so as to give 
the largest outlooks and 
best points of view, some- 
times leading almost into 
the spray of falls, again 
\mder treacherous lookiug 
outcrops of rock, again 
through intervening bits of 
wood, then through tunnel - 
like depths where the walls 
almost come together over- 
head, and the hiss and 
plunge of the stream are 
echoed from rock to rock, 
adding to the wildness of 
the impression. 

Cavern cascade, the Laby- 
rinth, Minnehaha Falls, the 
long staircase pitched up at 
an angle of 45 degrees, Glen 
Cathedral, the Pool of the 
Nymphs, Glen Arcadia, El- 
tin Gorge, Glen Facility 
and Glen Elysium are hap- 
pily named points of in- 
terest on the route. Glen Cathedral is probably 
the finest jiart of the glen. It is a chasm a 
thousand feet long with walls nearly three hun- 
dred feet high, their tops fringed with ferns and 
bushes and trees bending over. A still pool 
spreads through a jiart of the level floor and a 
cascade tund^les into it at the upper end, over 
a ledge sixty feet high. 

The visitor enters at Glen Aljiha and if he has 
persistence to trace the ravine to its end, three 
miles away at Glen Omega, he will emerge in a 
tangle of vegetation where there is little of sceiuc 
consequence. If he does not wish to descend as 
he went up — though it is advisable to do ,so, 
because he gets new points of view that are 
striking and beautiful — he may climb upon the 
railroad near the upjier end of the ravine, where 
it crosses bv a trestle one hundred and fiftv feet 



liigh, and four hundred and (ifly feet long, or 
lie can make a partial descent until lie comes to 
Ihe light iron biiilge that spans the gulf at tiie 
niountain house and make his exit tliere, getting 
back to town by a pleasant road, commanding a 
wide view. Tlie whole scenery of the glen is 
bi/.arre, romantic and impressive. There are many 




such glens in the central counties of the State, 
and they are worth seeing, too. but after view- 
ing Watkins you know what they are all like. 
A sail down Seneca Lake, for at least a part 
of its length, is in order after seeing the glen. 
Like other lakes in central New York, this is a 
long, finger-like body of water, so narrow that 
it inii)resses one more as a river than an in- 
closed body, yet so long that when one looks over 
it from either eiul the water and sky meet, as 
they do on the ocean. It is thirty-tive miles long, 
and l)ut from one to four miles wide. The water, 
which is of wondrous purity never freezes in 
winter. Its shores are gently rolling and in sum- 
mer are beautiful with verdure, as they are fra- 
grant with fruit in the Fall. Grajx-s are grown 
here in immense quantities, the soil, climate and 
hillside exposure seeming to be exactly what they 



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WATKINS GLEN. 



require. On several of the faces of the hills the 
dark mouths of glens will be seen, with delicate 
cascades spraying through their entrances. The 
onl}'' stops of interest to the tourist will be those 
made at Ovid, the site of a large asylum, and 
■Geneva, at the northern end, a pleasant and 
thriving town noted for its schools. 

Watkins Glen makes a unique "Side Trip," 
but it can be made the turning point of a most 
interesting and profitable outing of a few daj^s. 
Take the Erie from New York to Elmira (eight 
hours), returning from Elmira to New York by 
■either the Lehigh Valley or the Delaware, Lacka- 
wanna & Western. Prom Elmira to Watkins by 
the Northern Central is fifty minutes. 

The Erie will give at least two days pleasure 



by s'ops along the line ; particularly by stopping 
at Port Jervis, thence by stage down the Dela- 
ware Valley to Milfonl. or thereabouts, and re- 
turn to Port Jervis ; thence to Shohola Glen ; 
tlicnee to Elmira ; this trip over the Erie passes 
through some of tlie most enchanting railroad 
scenery in the Eastern States. Two days at 
Watkins Glen, at Havana Glen and on Seneca 
Lake. Returning to New York by the Lehigh 
Valley (eight hours), tvro days can be spent 
en route at Glen Onoko, Mauch Chunk, Wilkes- 
barre, &c., passing through "The Switzerland of 
America." Making six days in all. 

The railroad fares would be about $14.00, and 
hotel and other expenses can be kept within 
$8.00 to $:150 per day 



WITH HORSE AND CARRIAGE. 



Illustrations in this Article from Photos, taken, on Carriage Trips, by the Writer. 



'T'HAT old-school animal — all the way from Eden — 
shanks-mare, is serviceable in its way, no 
doubt ; that new faugled balance-yourself-or-you- 
will-go-over machine, the bicycle, is gorgeous for 
asphalt roads and down hill ; there are lots of 
methods for gadding that each have good points ; 




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but for the best way of getting around give me a 
horse, srmething with legs to save mine, some- 
thing that won't compel me to pump my heart 
out, on a bit of sandy strip or a little rise in 
tile road. Poets have sung the praises of the 
horse for ages, but the noble animal never did 
and never will appear to better advantage than 



on a country road, attached to a comfortal)le 
wagon, attended by two or more lovers of nature, 
who may be in the wagon or sauntering along 
for a little stretch, or a little botanizing or geo- 
logizing. 

The gregarious tendency of the times, the club, 

the casino, the pri\ate 

parks and settlements, 

the luxury of modern 

travel, the wild, nervous 

desire for something new 

or exciting, have all had 

the etfect of turning the 

hearts of Gothamites from 

that sweet and refreshing 

communion with nature 

that can only be had by 

close contact. Nature is 

coy, nature must be 

sought, nature nuist be 

loved, and never a mortal 

went unpaid, nay, who 

was not overpaid, who 

sought nature with the 

least bit of affectionate 

regard. Nature can be 

seen and felt from a 

wagon, in whims a n d 

humors and phases that are absolutely invisil)le 

from any other medium. I have driven thiough 

blossom-lined roads that were unapproachable in 

sweetness ; through by-wav'S in many regions, 

where the purling brook by the road side, and 

the busy wings and low love-notes of insects and 

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crowd like a iiiotlicrs lullahy ; tliroiin-h ,l,.fii,.s 
and ravines and uorucs wliciv tlic unnidcur 
Wduld till tlic s:)ul will) in\ii|iintarv udrsliip ; 
and yet wauoii tri])s arc almost unkmiwn. I 
rcnu'inber incctipii- on one of my tri|)s. al a liltlc 
country inn in New llampsliii-c. a parly of i'our 
from lidston, iioini;- north witli their team and 
waiion ; the mutual aslduishment of l)()tii parties 
was very ureal. 1'iie party fnim IJoslon had made 
several similar trijjs in Kn-land and Scotland, and 
two or three in the ••States." my jiarly had 
traveled nearly twenly-live hundred miles, in a 
dozen or more ditVereiit trijts, and this meetinic 
was the tirsl of the kind that either party had 
ever known. \n occasional laUy-iio party, wilh 
coach ami lour all galore, hampers and iiorns 




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THE rUAXCONIA XOTCn — WTTITE MOT-XT.XINS. 

and racket and noise, we had met a few times, 
out for three or four days, in a wild search for 
a good time and a nt'W sensation, hut a party 
in quest of rest and close ccmtacl with health- 
giving nature had never before been met. 

There need be nothing excei)tional about the 
turnout. A horse and buggy will answer for a 
coupie. T have spent many hajipy hours and 
covered many miles in such. For four, an ordinary 
depot wagon and team is the thing. The wagon 
and horses that took me over two thousand 
miles, on tive or six trips, are shown in the 
picture above, of the Franeonia Notch. It is the 
usual straight-body depot wagon, with a trunk 
rack and a strong brake addeil. There is room 
under the seats for camera, horse blaidscls and 



coals and wraps. The hand-bags contain Ih.' luilet 
articles and knickkn;ieks wanted dm-inir the dav, a 
small trunk, or its eipiival.'nl, on the rack, carries 
a eii.inge or two of linen, a change of gowns 
and oilier things wanted only when resting. Vou 
travel light in a carriage, nothing Imt aclual 
necessilies ; expri'ss packages meet you. and are 
relurned home, at convenient points. Don't worry 
about the style or strength of tin; wai^on ; the 
one you have in use will answer your purpo.sc 
fully, as the average roads are (jiiite as good as 
those you are accustomed to u.se. If your wagon 
has no brake, you can get one put on for cigiit 
to len dollars ; don t start without a brake. 

Any sound horses will be benelited, raih.r t),;,n 
otherwise, by such a Irij) ; that is, pi-f.vided you 

look after theiri your- 
self. If you lake no 
iut<'rest in horses, or 
don't understand them, 
you had belter not 
start; b.raltliough there 
is plenty cjf hd]) at all 
stopping places, yet it 
is not always intelli- 
gent, or willing to do 
.just the right thing. I 
have taught many u 
cmutry groom how to 
foment my hoi-ses legs 
after a jog of twenty 
miles, or so, over a 
heavy or gravelly road, 
and I have often moved 
a horse away from a 
crack in the siding of 
a country barn, through 
which a wind was blow- 
ing that would have 
caused a i)ainful stif- 
feiung in a few mo- 
nieius. The motive 
power is such an im- 
portant factor in an 
outing of this kind that it is worth looking after, and 
nuist be. See to the housing of the horses yourself, 
and satisfy j'ourse If that the groom understands his 
business before you leave him ; use a blanket, 
and don't feed until the horses are cool ; bathe 
feet and legs after any hard work; feed and rest 
regularly. It is wise to fee the groom liberally ; 
remember that you are an entire stranger and 
that consequently you and your traps are of little 
interest to him, exce])t thai \'ou bring to him just 
so 'iiuch extra work. I remember the lowering 
looks of a cou])le of grooms, when I drove up 
to the barn of a hotel at C'ooperstown ; we had 
raced for ten miles through rain and mud along 
the shore of Cooper's " Glinuner-Glass " (Otsego 
Lake) on a Avager that we could l)eat the liltlc 




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the -n-hole turnout, harness, horses and wagon 
were covered with mud; a sight to sour any 
groom ; a pleasant word or two and an invitation 
to earn a dollar apiece, changed the scowls to 
smiles, and within a couple of hours everything 
was as clean and bright as ever. 




the meadows of eastern Massachusetts, through 
Newburyport, Ipswich, Cape Ann, Salem, Boston, 
Bridgewater to Fall River, thence by boat to 
New York. 

What has already been said will suggest a 
choice of routes. The best roads will be found 
east of the Hudson or in the northeastern 
section of New Jersey. The best nearby 
natural scenery, in variety, is west of the 
Hudson. Perhaps the best combination 
of natural, pastoral, and modern improve- 
ments will be found in a route through the 
Ilousatonic Valley and the Berksliires, 
returning down the east side of the 
mountains. The Catskills are not fertile 
enough to show fine farm life, but the 
eastern and centre sections are wonder- 
fully rich in natural effects. Through 
the Mohonk region, by jMinnewaska and 
Ellen ville. and down the Delaware Valley 
to the Water Gap, thence northwest to 
West Point is a splendid combination trip. 
The country through the Oranges, IMont- 
clair, IMorristown, Budds Lake, &c., af- 
fords a choice of delightful experiences. 
The south side of Long Island, for its 
entire len<itli, if time affords, thence re- 



turnmg 



along the north shore of the 



LrV'ERMORE FALLS — PLYMOUTn, N. H. 



When 



figure 



laying out your route ngure on an 
of six miles an hour. Allow twelve to 
twenty miles for a fliorning, rest two to four 
hours, and then twelve to twenty miles in the 
afternoon — twenty to thirty miles a day — finishing 
about 5.30 p.m., or you may get a very poor set-out 
for your evening meal. I have 
driven fifty miles in a day, but the 
average of a trip is about twenty- 
five miles; always resting on Sun- 
days*. On the last stage of a three 
weeks trip, covering about six 
hundred miles, we drove the team 
twenty-eight miles in two and 
three-quarter hours; they had been 
so well cared for that they took 
the gait themselves. It would be 
impossible to find a more exhila- 
rating sensation than such a ride, 
a lovely September day, 
the beautiful country 
lying between Bridgewater and 
Fall River. It was a fitting ter- 
mination for a trip that had started 
at Hartford, along the Connecticut 
Valley, over into Pemigew^asset 
Valley, through the Franconia 
Mountains to Mount Washino;ton 
down through the Crawford Notch 
to the Sea at Portsmouth, alonff 



Island, gives a contrast of natural for- 
mations which hardly seem to belong to 
the same countrj^ 
Start out with a certain knowledge that j'our 
fare will be mixed. Be content to occasionally 
live on water and little else, for it will surely 
happen that in some places you wiU be averse 
to eating or drinking anything; but be ready to 
fill up at the next place, which will probably 



on 



through 




OLD-GOLD COTTAGE, I5AKTLETT, N. H. 



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give you all that ymi cniild desire. IMcmory 
recalls a uight at a country inn in New Hamp- 
shire where our tea and breakfast were com- 
posed of bread, wild l)lackberrits and straw 
berry-leaves tea, but the next niulil was spent 
in a hundred-year-old 
inn at Penacook, witli a 
table set like a i>oets 
dream, with food lit for 
the li'ods, and beds spread 
with home-spun linen, 
fro ni lavender-1 i n e d 
presses. Hemeniber that 
while one day you are at 
a liuinlilc, and perlia])s 
dirty, country iiui, the 
next (hiy you may take 

your choice of the best ; ^ 

hotels of some large place 
through Avhich your 
route will lead you. Not 
that many country inns 
are objectional)le; the 
Old Gold Cottage shown 
in the picture maj' be a 
little bit, but not very 
much nicer than the 
average. 

The cost of carriage 
trips differs, somewhat, 

according to the region. For a party of four 
and team of horses; on Long Island and through 
New Jersey about $16.00 a day; through the 
Catskills and Berkshires about $18.00; through 
the White Mountains about $20.00 a day ; about 
one-half the average cost of outings by rail, &c. 
The aggregate cost is somewhat affected, also, by 



starting and returning by road from the city, 
or by taking boat t<j and from s<»me distant 
l)oint from wliicli to l)egin the wagon ride, sucii 
as Hondont, or Catskill, or Troy, or Hartford, or 
Fall Uivcr, iVc Of course the ex|)ense of team. 





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THK nunSON, l-ItoM Wf.ST I'orNT. 

wagon and four persons for one night on a boat is 
very much greater than the board for one night at a 
country inn. The advantage of a night on a boat is 
that you ari' thus enabled to start your liorses 
nearer to some desired point, which you miglit 
not otherwise be able to reach within the limited 
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54 



A DAY AT WEST POINT. 



"T^IIE scholar, the soldier, the pedagogue, the 
historian, the patriot, the artist and the ramb- 
ling siglitseer find "West Point one of tlie most 
interesting spots in tliis country. Phuuicd as it 
is on the noblest site, beside the noblest of the 
eastern rivers, commanding a view unmatched 
— upon the 

Rhine, asso- 
ciated with 
, memories 

of Wash- 



surrounded })\ the 




FROM WKST I'OINT. 

ington and Arnold, hero and villain of the 
Ilevolutionary drama, dotted with moninnents 
tliat recall the daring, the energy, and the up- 
rightness of the people, and popidated by some 
hundreds of young men who are to command 
our army in the future, the visitor is thrilled 
when he stands on its broad fields and hears 
the clangor of martial nuisic cclioing against the 
crags. 

If the visit can be made during the June 
<'xaminations, all tlu' bt'tter, for the cadets are 



then on exhibition, so to speak, in all branches, 
of the service, infantry and cavalry drill, hand- 
ling of field arlilkay and siege guns, signaling, 
jiontdon building, target practice, Iximb practice 
and warlike evolutions on the camjius. After 
graduation they go into camp until cool weather. 
Aside from this season the best and busiest 
months are April, jMay, September and October. 
West Point is a plateau presenting a steep 
face to the river on the north and east and 
roughest and tallest of the 
highlands. It has been a 
military post since 1778. and 
the evolutions to be seen 
here are the most perfect in 
the world. Oiu- army may 
not be large, but it is good. 
Usually the school contains 
about 300 young men, and 
near at hand are quarters 
for a small ccmnnand of 
regular troops. Cadets are 
admitted between the ages 
of 17 and 22, if they pass 
the physical and mental 
tests and get a Congres- 
sional nomination. They 
are taught by officers of the 
army in the higher English 
branches, drawing, langu- 
ages, engineering and law. 
The mathematical course 
is trying. 

Each cadet becomes a 
second lieutenant on gradu- 
ation, and may elect whether 
he will enter the cavalry, 
artillery, infantry or en- 
gineers, in accordance with 
his percentage of merit, but 
his training ciualifieshim for 
all branches of the service. 
He must be a daring rider, 
a skilful fencer, he nuist 
excel the members of the raidc and file in the manual 
of arms and above all things, he must be truthful 
and honorable. The schooling is four years long 
and is severe. No officer in any of the world's 
arniies is so well equipped for his work as the 
West Pointer. 

Visitors can see most of the sights of the 
Point Avithout trouble. Cadets sometimes feel 
their importance a little unduly, especially in 
their first years, and if a visitor accidentally 
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A DAY AT \Vi:.ST I'UIXT 



warned away by a youiii;- ])(i'S!)n in ^rav, who 
puts on a very awe insj)irinii- tone and look for 
till' ])uri)osc. The drill liTound is foi'ly acres in 
cxlent and the principal l);uldiiiij:s are near it. 
A line display oi' horsemanship can be seen i'roni 
the iiallery of llie liij;- ridini;- hail. JIead(piarters 
is just to the west of this Ituildini;', and con- 
linuini;' our walk Ihroui^h the resei'\ation, we 
pass the library witii its dome, tiie chapel with 
its ]iaintiui;', the academy, cadet barracks, iiymna- 
slum and ollicers (piarters. The mess hall, south 
of the academy, is adorned with ]iortraits of 
famous iicncrals who have ui-aduated here. 

Uncle Sam is au ex- 
cellent housekeeper and 
one cannot fail to hv \ 
struck with the order \ 
and neatness that obtain I 
everywhere, and that arc 
in such contrast to the 
rug-u'etlness of the sur- 
rouniling scenery. The 
whole reservation is, in 
fact, a beautiful park, 
with a setting tiner than 
that of any other park 
in the country. After a 
li'lance at the buildings, 
('lie should ramble about 
Ihe plain, observing the 
relics and tropliies wliich 
are Icept there, tlie mortar 
and siege batteries, the 
magazines and the monu- 
ments whicli commemo- 
rate Sedgwick, Thayer, 
D a d e a n d Kosciuslco. 
Other noted names ma_\ 
l)e read on tlie stones in 
the cemetery at tlie uortli 
end of the Po.st, c]os( f 

i 

under the shadow of old 
Crow Nest. 

Fort Clinton, at tlie 
edge of the plain, was 

known as Fort Arnold up to the time of Arnold's 
defection, and we smile when we hear that it 
was then regarded as impregnable. This was 
line of a series of batteries that lined the hill- 
sides and extended toward the river below. Of 
the others of these works only IJattcry Knox 
and Fort Putnam remain. Fort Sherbourne stood 
on Trophy ])oint and the new observatory marks 
the site of Fort Webb. 

Fort Clinton contains a nioiuiment to Kosci- 
usko, Avho planned it, and the celehraled Hirta- 
tion walk leads to Kosciusko's garden, a ledge 
and spi'ing to which tlu^ gallant Pole was in 
the habit of rei):uring for meditation and rest. 
It was wliile seated here that a cannon shot was 
tired at him from a British ship and left its mark 



on a iiei;;hliorinu- ro<k. Fort Putnam was liuilt l<i 
conmiand and i)rolect the, lower forts, rcgarilie.ss 
of the fact that Ihe enemy ini!,dil, in tuiri, ha\c 
conunanded it fmui liiiihei' hills. It is pei'ched on 
a stee|) promontory nearlv OiiO feel, above tlie 
river, anil it is one of the jilaces that must Ite 
.seen. A fair climber need not take o\er thirty 
minutes to get to it if he will lake the road 
behind the gynniasiiun, follow it u|) lull, take 
the third road to the lefl and the second turn 
ing to the right, The fort is a small defence, 
III judge it by what we know forts ought to be 
in our day; yet it was the kev to the ri\er, ami 




FKO.M FOHT PITN.XM. 

it was this that Arnold intended to surrender. 
For America, that lias so little of this kind of 
thing, it is a pretty line old ruin and its crumb- 
ling casements are invested with a certain dignity. 

The view is suiterb, including a wide reach of 
the river, the post with its buildings and velvet 
lawns, the savage gap in the Highlands and ihe 
cloudy Cat.skills — Ontioras, mountains of the sky 
—beyond. On the right as you face north are 
Crow Nest, the scene of James Roilman Drake's 
admired poem of ■'The Culjirit Fay." and just 
beyond the taller Storm King, the Butter Hill 
of the Dutch settlers. On the east side of the 
river the tawny crags of Bull Hill and Great 
Neck are seen. 

Of course the cadet life at the Point will 



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always engage a certain part of the interest of 
visitors and the following is a concise programme 
of their exercises from June First to November 
First: 

Graduation Exercises commence June 1st and 
last about 10 days. About the middle of June 
the Cadets go "in Camp." "Camp" is broken 
on August 29th. 
During Camp— Troop parade and Guard mounting 

at 8.00 a.m.; evening parade at (j.80; also drills 

from 7.00 to 7.45 a.m., and Artillery from 9.00 

to 10.00 a.m. 
From the middle of June 

until the end of August, 

Cadet Hops are given 

on IMonday, Wednes- 
day and Friday even- 
ings, and the band 

plays on 

Tuesday, 

Thursday 

and Satur- 
day even- 
ings at 8.00 

o'clock. 
During Sep- 
tember and 

October 

the Guard 

mounting 

is at 7.15 

a. m. i n - 

stead of 

8.00 a. m ; 

evening 

parade a t 

about 6.00: 

w i t h t h V 

following 

drills : 
During September 

—Cavalry drill at 

11.00 a.m. audln- 

fantryat415p.m. 
During October — 

Cavalry drill at 

11.00 a.m. and 

Light Battery, with firing from the two Forts, 

at 4.15 p.m. 

Aside from cadet life and the public buildings, 
the natural beauties of the Point can be seen, 
especially by the average American tourist, in a 
few hours; but many hours can be profitably 
and pleasurablj' spent, as indicated above. If 
the visit is a picnic, lunch can be disposed of 
on top of the cliff north of the riding hall ; this 
spot is very quiet and secluded and gives the 
finest river outlook of scenery at the Point ; 
it is easily reached by turning to the right from 



Photo, and C'opyriglit by S. R. Stoddard, Glens Fall.- 
CADET EXERCISES. 



the main road up the hill from the landing, im- 
mediately after passing the riding hall ; if the 
party are climbers, Fort Putnam is a splendid 
place for lunch. Meals at the West Point Hotel 
on the grounds are served at 1.00 p.m. for dinner, 
price $1.50, and at 6.00 p.m. for tea, price |1.00; 
and good meals they are. 

Sunday visitors are not desired by the dwellers 
at the Point ; no boats are allowed to land at the 
wharf on Sundays, and on that day all visitors 
must use the route via Cranstons, from Avhich place 
there is a beautiful country road, about one mile, 

\vith stages and 
hacks for those 
who wish to 
ride. On week 
days, however, 
the routes to 
the Point are 
aried. The 
Albany Day 
Line gets 
there at 11.50 
a. m. and 
leaves for 
New York at 
2.50 p. m., 
excursion 
fare $1.00, 
one of t h e 
most beaiiti- 
ful all day 
excursions in 
the world; or 
you can re- 
turn by rail- 
road as late 
as 7.30 p.m., 
fare 98 cents. 
On Satur- 
lays, during 
the season, for $1.00, 
the Mary Powell 
lands you thereat 4.45 
p.m. with a ticket to 
return by the West 
Shore Railroad as late 
as 7.30 p.m., a beautiful afternoon trip. By the 
West Shore Railroad or by the New York Central 
you can reach the point by 9.30 a.m., fare 98 cents, 
and return by railroad as late as 7.30 p.m., excur- 
sion fare $1.75, or return by the Albany Day 
Line leaving the Point at 2.50 p.m., fare seventy- 
five cents. 

There is no trip around New York that gives 
so much solid return for the money as that to 
West Point, and none so little known and ap- 
preciated. 




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JOHNS TWENTY DOLLAR VACATION. 






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4 ".yWRNTY dollars iuul 
lull (lays !'■ cried 
Jolm as, after s(iiiariii,i;- ac- 
counts at lioinc. he went 
out at the aute, throwing 
a kiss to his landlady's 
dauyiitcr. " No more oflicc 
until a week from Tuesday. 
Ah ! Now for a smell of 
the woods and a siulit of the 



sky." It was late 



on a 



Tl 



u rs ■ 



He had delavcd hi>^ 



day afiernoon in October, 
vacation both ". 
from motives of 
taste and econ- 
omy, for land- 
lords to whom 
people resort 
charge less in 
the Fall than in 
hot weather, and 
John was one of 
the kind that 
found it no relief 
to get out of a 
crowded c i t y 
into a still more 
crowded s u m- 
iiier resort. He 
went to the 
Grand Central Station and 
invested in a ticket for Shef- 
field, Mass., and after a 
longish twilight ride he 
reached that pretty village. 
A farmer was waiting for 
hiiu with u wagon, and in 
half an hour the cosy-looking 
lights of a house twinkled 
out at him through the trees. 
In a few^ moments more 
he was relieved of his satchel 
and was buckling into "a 
square meal" of wholesome countrv 
viands. After that he was ushered into 
an airy room, clean and spacious, and 
as he listened to the lulling whisper of 
the wind in the trees outside he thought 
to himself that he was in rare good luck 
to have found a place where they had 
not been in the habit of keeping 
boarders. And he was. A farmer 
rarely stays good more than three years 
after boarders go to him. After that 
the chance to make money blinds him 




to justice and .sometimes decency. ITc cuts up 
his best rcjoms with llini.sy jiartitions, impoverishes 
his table, raises his jirices and cjiarges lor extras. 
Nobody goes to that sort of man for a second time, 
but he makes his paltry crop of hay while tiic brief 
sunshine falls on him. 

John was here for a week, and Ins bill was to 
be $0.00. It docs not concern us much how he 
sjient his time, though it was a good time. He 
was up early and out all day. Sometimes he did 
a l)il of work on the farm, to revive memories of 
his youth — and there are young fellows who are 
enabled in that way to knock oil a 
little from their board bills, too. Inci- 
dentally he got up his muscle. He 
whipped the stream for lisli. 1 Ic roamed 
the lovely elm-shaded village streets. 
e cliinbed Mount Everett and had 
some hours of lonesome glory, with the 
Catskillscloudiug the west and a tumult 
of ]K'aks rising along the north. One 
day he tramped to the Twin Lakes, and 
on another he and the farmer's 
family rode over the range, 
past Sky Farm, where tlie 
Goodale sisters, poets, were 
born, and picnicked at Bash 
r.ish Falls. It was a week 
of thorough recreation, 

On the second Friday morn- 
ing he slung his satchel over 
his shoulder, grasped an apple 
tree stick in hand, 
bade farewell to 
his entertainers 
and set his face 
northward. It was 
inspiring to think 
that the most novel 
and adventurous 
part of his vacation 
was still before 
him, and that he 
was going to per- 
fect his knowledge 
of the I)eautifnl 
Berkshire Hills. It 
was inspiring, too, 
to think that he 
was widening the 
distance between 
the ollice and him- 
self; but then, he 
seldom allowed 
himself to think 



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JOHNS TWENTY DOLLAR VACATION. 



about the office. The man must be ii dull soul 
indeed, who linds himself afoot on a tirm I'oad 
amou;;; the mountains with October scarlet blazing 
in the woods, with 
a cool, bracing air 
to breathe, a soft 
sky overhead, a few 
dollars in his pocket 
and a sense of lib- 
erty in his legs, and 
is not upbfted. 

John tingled with 
life. There was a 
sense of intoxica- 
tion in the air. He 
flourished his stnff 
like a drum major, 
whistled in light- 
ness of heart and 
laughed aloud a t 
the happy thoughts 
that came to him. 
"Give me youth 
and a day, and I 
will make the pomp 
of Emperors ridic- 
ulous" he cried, quoting 
Emerson as, from a rise in 
the road, his eye swept 
over leagues of thrifiy 
farms with white steeples 
rising from tufied trees and 
hdls of sapphire waving on 
the horizon. The rustics 
stared at him, as they will 
at people wlio walk from 
choice, but passing farmers 
offered him a ride and he 
accepted for a mile or two, 
more for the chat than from 
fatigue Gre.itBarrington, with 
its village park and iis statue, 
he made no pause in, but he 
climbed Monument Mountain, 
partly because it is easy and 
partly because he had read Bry- 
ant's poem on it, antl rested there 
for an hour on the brink of tbe 
cliff from which the Indian girl 
had leaped. 

Then briskly on again to 
Stockbridge with its chimes its 

air of comfort, where he was Photos, by a. M. Costello, Great Bairineton 

tired enough to put up for the night. In the morn- 
ing, with more perfect weather to encourage 
him— the kind of weather that makes October so 
delightful for a vacation— he struck through 
Lenox, beautiful and aristocratic, and a long. 



Here, by the elders consent, he put up for lunch 
and dinner. Of course he insisted on paying for 
the accommodation, though it was only a modest 
sum that was accepted. He 
passed some hours in j^rotita- 
ble study of the way in which 
homes and farms may be run, 
and in entertaining and instinc- 
tive talk with the older men of 
tlie family on the curious his- 
tory of their order, their tenets 
of spiritualism, celibacy and 
communism and their eager 
advocacy of Henry George's 
doctrines. He was not 




quiet tramp over the hills brought him to one 
of the most interesting settlemei,ts in this country. 
West Pitlsfield, one of the homes of tlie Shakers. 



prepared to find such 
vigor of body and mind 
among a people subsist- 
ing on vegetable food, 
and the order and won- 
deiful cleanliness thai 
prevailed everywhere, 
aroused his admiration. 
The abundance at the 
table surprised him, and 
the absence of meat and 
tish yeemcd to be more 
ban made good by the 
bread, cake, pastry, 
fruit, sauces pie- 
serves, puddings, 
eggs, cheese, midv, 
coffee, tea and veg- 
etables. They told 
him that in their 
quiet, temperate 
life, assured against 
anxiety, desertion, 
poverty and over- 
work, not one of 
them ever fell vic- 
tim to cancer or 
blood disease, and 
that the average of 
their years was 
greater than that 
of men and w^omen 
"in the world." 

John left the vil- 
lage with a high 
opinion of the 
Shakers, but with 
no idea of becom- 
ing one of them, passed on to the prosperous 
Pittsfield and there took the evening train for 
Adams, where he put up for the night. It was 
from here that he attacked old Greylock, King 
of the Berkshires, on the following (Sunday) 
morning. This peak, over 3,500 feet high, is 
approached most directly from the south, but 
more easily from the north. John ascended the 



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one way, from Adniii'^. .•md iiflcr pi-npcr ciijoy- 

iiiciil of tli<> view, wliicli incluilcs the Catskills, 
Takonifs, C.ncn and Monadnock Mouiilaiiis and 

many valleys <^\vvn and due]!, lu- dcsc.nilcd by 

n fair -\vagon road tiirougli the wdd and \vind\' 

Xo'cli to North Adams. Had lime MdliccMi he 

would liavc 

gone afoot, 

or hy earri- 

a g e f ro m 

Pitts field, 

past Pon- 

toosiic Lake 

and through 

t tieeloves of 
1 he Saddle- 

l)ack Rauge, 
aud if one is 
u fair wallv- 
er and a 
poor climb- 
er the tramp 
over this 
(juiet an d 
b e a u t i f u 1 
road is re- 
commended in place of 
the ascent of Greylock. 

]^orth Adams is a 
busy town wiih 
pleasant surround 
iugs, lying near \a 
Hoosack Mountain 
with its twenty million ■'/ 
dollar tunnel, l)ut John 
could see town enough and ''^^ 
business enough in New York, so 
he went on that evening to Albany, '''^ 
not to explore it, but to pass the night, 
The last day of his vacation, Mondaj', he spent 
in the descent of the Hudson on the Day Boat, 
arriving h(mie for su])iier, ferociously hungrj-, 
happy, and with replenished muircles and brains. 
Now, as to how he did it all. John had to be 
frugal, but lie took a frugal district at a frugal 



tune. He got his lodgings and some ini-ids at 
country inns where the njnsienl rates uru ^1 .00 to 
$2.00 for a full day, and wlien lie was afcxji, he 
had no ditlieulty in tiding over the noon willi a 
snack at a grocery or a lunch at a farm house, 

10 to 2'} centH lor 
the service 



where lluy charged him from 




His fa I V H 
were *2.85 
f ro m .New 
V o r k t (> 
ShellieM; 40 
cents from 
I'itt>field to 
AdaD)s; and 
.-^l.riO from 
Nth Ada tns 
to Albany ; 
s2 00 from 
Aiban}' to 
]Ne\v York. 
Altogether 
about ST. GO 
for fares. 
A d (1 s6 00 
forhis weeks 
board at Slu llield and there 
is a balance of sT.OO for the 
four days remaining. Should 
one wish to make substantially the 
same trip for less, he can walk more 
and ('an return by the way he went. 
Or for the sake of diversity, he can go 
'rom North Adams to Petersburg Junc- 
tion, instead of to Albany, and return by 
the Lebanon Springs and Harlem Railroads, 
a picturesque and agreeable journey that in- 
volves a slight saving, likewise. By returning on 
this line a stop-over can be secured at Lebanon 
Springs and a visit may be mide to the Shaker 
settlement at ]\Iount Lebanon, the largest aud 
most imitortant in the country. Of course, in 
that case the West Pittsfield settlenuut can be 
omitted. 




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HOW TO SEE THE WHITE MOUNTAINS 



TIS" all the countrj' east of the Rockies, no region is 
more delightful than that of the White Moun- 
tains. The peaks of North Carolina are a trifle 
higher, but not shapelier, and down there one has to 
contend with mi-erable roads, a dull jiopulation 
and many things that are behind the times. A 
few tine hotels do not offset the inconveniences 
that exist everywhere ,„ 
off the beaten path. 
In the "White Moun- 
tains, on the contrary, 
one has the advantage 
of improvements that 
have gone on for years 
and that without in 
juring the natural seen 
ery. In summer, ex- 
tortions are practised 
at some hotels, and a 
few railroads and stage 
lines charge more 
fancy prices than any 
others on earth, but the 
swindles are few and 
the tourist with good 
legs can be independent 
of them, if he will. The 
best course through the 
region is a long loop, up 
the west side and down 
the east. 

Though one can take 
Lis breakfast in New 
York and his supper in 
the Protile House, Bos- 
ton is the better starting 
point if one intends to 
see the mountains sys- 
tematically. In the ap- 
proach from New York 
the mind is not so well 
prepared to understand 

the magnificence of the Photos, bj W. H Kau, Philadelphia. 

mountains as when one draws slowly toward them gewasset, passin 
for a couple of days. 

Leaving Boston in the morning, the traveler 
is at Lake Winnepesaukee by noon, and gets his 
first view of the peaks as the steamer glides over 
this encthanting sheet. It is dotted with Islands, 
and the heights in the distance are a constantly 
shifting background, taking on opalescent changes 
Avith every alternation of sunlight and shadow. 
Center Harbor is reache<l in time for the ascent of 
Red Hill, 2,000 feet high, tlie first of many climbs 
that should be undertaken if one intt nds to say 
that he has seen the uiountains. The view is less 




grand tlian some which he will see later, but it 
is charniing, for the silver waters of two lakes are 
spread below and the natural rudeness of the land 
is tamed bj' man. There is nothing in the English 
lake district to equal this landscape. 

Returning to Center Harbor one may stop for 
the night in a hotel of either the first or second 

class, and be well cared 
for in either. He will 
probably encounter 
here the Yankee school- 
marm and the college 
student in their summer 
capacity of table 
waiters, (.lood waiters 
they are, too ■ demure, 
quick minded, self re- 
specting, though will- 
ing to accept tips. 
There are few to whom 
one can give a tip with 
a better grace, becau.^e 
it goes toward defray- 
ing the expense of an 
education, and the guest 
may be tipping a future 
President. 

Now, for a time, dissolve 
relations with the railroads 
and strike out over the high- 
waj's. They are good 
enough to walk on, or drive 
on, and even the bicycle can 
be put over a good part of 
them, because they follow in 
the troughs of the rivers and 
take the easiest grades. 
Squam Lake, by some es- 
teemed more beautiful than 
Winnepesaukee, is passed so 
near that one is impelled to 
swim in it ; then he strikes 
into the valley of the Pemi- 
the old church at Holderness 
on the w^ay. Plymouth, 14 miles from Centi r 
Harbor, is an agreeable stopping place. It has a 
sad interest fiom the death of Hawthorne, prince 
of American novelists, alone and in his sleep in a 
room at the leading hotel. Mount Prospect, over 
2,000 feet high, stands near and offers an extended 
view to whoever has the time to take it. 

Turning northward there is a straight road for 
25 miles, the hills closing in higher and nearer as 
we go along. The incri ase in grandeur keeps the 
dullest alert and enthusiastic, and as high ground 
is gained the air refines into something more 



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61 



HOW TO SEE THE WTillE MUUNTAIXS. 



cxbilaratinc: thtin we get in the low iands. 
Campton, Thornton a.ul Woodstock arc convi-niciit 
stopping places, tiiough Micy otYcr little to delay 
us, unless we wisii to diverge to tlie top of 
Monsilauke — well worth the elVort — and we piisii 
on to tlie heart of tlii' Franconias that yawn apart 
just ahead. At tlie l'"liiine 
and Vd in we see the re- '~ 
markable results of rivt-r 
action, and waterfalls 
abound everywhere. 

Still plodding north- ' 
ward through deep forest 
where llii! thru.shes are 
singing, a sudden break 
in the wood reveals a sight 
that makes us catch our 
breath : a vision of the 
scarred face of Mount 
Cannon, a jheer prec- 
ipice with its even f 
slope of debris, loom- 
ing into the sky 2,()UlJ 
feet above our heads. 
As we round it, the 
rock on its faither 
extremity resolves it- 
self into the great 
stone face that eveiy- 
body has heard of and 
that has looked out, 
sphinx like, 
from that eyrie, 
for untold cen- 
turies. H ere, 
too, w e come 
upon Echo lake, 
a sapphire in 
the malachite 
setting of the 
woods, a n d 
mighty crags 
rise about us. 
buttressing 
Mount Lafay- 
ette, whose top 
is a mile above 
the sea. The 
iscent of this 
peak is hanl 
and long, but 
remunerative. 
Whether one 
climbs it or not. he should ascend the easy height 
of Bald Mountain that lies at the northern gate 
of Franconia notch and olfers a majestic view. 

Escaping from tlie people who go to the 
wilderness to play tennis and wear toothpick 
shoes, we descend into Franconia, turn eastward, 
pass through tlie cool, high, healthy but hare and 
slightly interesting Bethleliem, tarrying on the 




Photos, by W. H. Uau, I'liiladolijliia. 

AT Sl'MMIT OF MOUNT WASniNGTOX 



way to climb Mount Agassiz where we got our 
i)earings and hear a nnisical eciio given frmn an 
oi>posite height at the blowing of a bugle ; then 
proceed Ihrniigh a lonely district folh.wing the 
Anunonoosiie upward, with the Ijackbone of the 
monnlaiii sysieiii, I lie minhty Washington and its 

frateniilv <if peaks 
ahead of us. For 
ciieai)ness sake we 
can slop at the 
Whit e Mountain 
Hon.se, tlie oldest 
hotel in the nionii- 
tains. or we may 
,tro on to the 
crowded Fabyans. 
We have nriw 
<"me to tlie foot 
of Washington, 
tli(iuij:h the top is 
miles away, and 
we can ascend by 
the inclined rail- 
road, or, if MilHei- 
eiitly athletic and 
inthnsiaslic, can 
walk up on or be- 
side the track ; but 
whoever tries to walk 
is warned that he is 
going tf) have one of 
the hardest times he 
ever had in his life. 
There are two paths 
leading from Fabyans, 
but tiny are nearly 
obliterated. It costs 
about a dollar a mile 
lo ride, but it is worth 
it to ones legs. 

Time permitting, it is 
better not to go to Fabyans, 
but to diverge near the Twin 
]\Iountain House and walk 
past the Pri'sidential range 
to Jefferson. The views 
from that villa.ire are strik- 
ing and tluy are best appre- 
ciated from Mount Starr 
King, which is easily climbed 
in two hours. The Wilder- 
ness seen from its toi> is 
dark and vast. A .irood 
road leads from Jefferson to the Glen, the deep 
rift that detaches the Carter range from the Pres- 
idential peaks, passing close under the castel- 
lated heigiits of Madison and Adams, and tlie 
Glen House is a favorable starting point tor 
i\Iomit Washington by stage or afoot up tlie 
road, or afoot throu.gh Tuckerman's ravine. The 
climb through the ravine is recommended to all of 



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62 



HOW TO SEE THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. 



good legs and sound wind. It reveals scenery as 
gloomily grand as most of that in Colorado, and 
until late in summer the incipient glacier cradled 
there, and known as the snow arch will be found 
intact. The scramble over the rough boulders and 
along the ledges is difficult but not dangerous 
and the way is marked by dabs of paint. 

Whichever route is taken to the peak, and 
there are others that lead over tlie northern and 
southern wings of the range, the traveler is advised 
to keep to beaten paths, unless the weather is 
good. His climb is facilitated by the marks and 
guide boards of the Appalachian Club. The fogs 
that close over the top of the mountain are 
dangerous to the inexperienced, and more than 
one person has left 
his bones on these 
savage slopes as a 
monument of his 
rashness. The view 
from the top ot 
Washington is tre- 
mendous in extent, 
but it is all so tar 
below that it is flat- 
tened to the sem- 
blance of a map. 
The hotel on top 
charges $5.00 a 
day for a cell of 
a room and or- 
dinary board, 
with extras for 
entrance to the 
observatory ; in- 
deed, everything 
on a n d u e a r 
Mount Wash- 
ington is man- 
aged by people 
who are not liv- 
ing t here for 
their health; yet 
it is an experi- 
ence t o recall 

..■, , Photos, by W. H. Rau, Pliiladelriliia. 

With awe and 

delight if one can remain on the moiuitain until 
morning. He seems pretty close to the sky, and 
the sunset and sunrise are glorious, if the weather 
allows them to be seen. 

The Crawford bridle path by which the descent 
should be made, is a trail leading for 8)4 miles 
down tlie bare, windy southern peaks, edging 
terrific gulfs, and olfers one of the most inspiring 
walks in the world, until the descent of Mount 
Clinton is begun, when the walker plunges into a 
forest and tramps for three miles down an exas- 
perating steep over bog, corduroy and rock, 
emerging at the Crawford House. Here he is at 
the gate of the Notch chiseled by the Saco, which 
has its birth at the foot of Mount Clinton, and 




the view of this immense canon, half a mile deep, 
should be taken from the top of Mount Willard, 
a crag that overiiangs it and is easily reached. 
On the left are the precipices of Mount Webster 
and opposite are the tremendous slides of Mount 
Willey. The walk through the Notch can be 
made either by the road— beautiful but closed in 
by trees —or by the railroad track, which is \mvd 
going and risky on tlie trestles, but yielding a 
wider outlook. A pause can be made at the Wil- 
ley House, scene of the tragedy of 1826. Below 
Bemis the trees and low hills close out the sight 
of the principal mountains. We see them again 
if we run up to Jackson, in the southern open- 
ing of the Glen, but North Conway, "a suburb 

of paradise " is the 
ol)jective point of 
most of the tour- 
ists, because of its 
comfortable hotels, 
agreeal)le drives 
and city society. 

There is much 
(lancing and tennis 
playing and fa.sh 
ionable fol-de-rol 
here, but the elm 
grown intervales 
are lovely, the hills 
are beautiful, the 
m a i n range, fif- 
teen miles away, 
stretches along the 
northern horizon 
like a sleeping lion, 
as Starr King 
phrases it in his 
book on the White 
hills — a book that evei'j'one should read 
before going into the mountains, or 
while traveling through them. Kiar- 
sarije is readily ascended from this 
village and the prospect from its sum- 
mit is more impiessive than that from 
Washington, because it has Washington 
itself as focus of the view. The 
roughest climb of all is that of Chocorua, a dozen 
miles away in air line and only 8,540 feet high, 
but a terror for steepness and the most Alpine in 
form of all. 

Incidentally, on this tour, one sees exquisite 
cascades and lakes. If the vacation is long 
enough the ascent of a dozen peaks may be 
attempted, and the wild, far away Dixville notch, 
with its crumbling bastions, will allure the more 
adventurous. A week, however, suffices for a 
glance at the leading points of interest, and one 
who enjoys walking need not exceed $35.00 for 
the trip, outside of railroad fares ; the railroad 
fares from and to Boston would be about $7.00 ; 
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MOIN i'AlSS. 



from $8.00 to flO.OO. An iliiu-iary for a week and llic Glen to the simiiiiil, Hciiiain on tiir sum 



wotiM be al)out as follows : 

First (lay : Fi-om Udsion Id Winni'ix'sauktT, 
climb Kcd Hill and stop at ('ciilcr Harbor. 

Second day : Walk to Thornton, ^.l miles. 

Third day : AValk to Franconia, Iti miles, see- 
iiiii- the Profile, Echo Lake, Fool, Flume and 
Basin, en route. 

Fourth day : AValk to Hellilehem. i>roceed bv 



udt all niuht. 

Fiflh day : Sec the sunrise. Start early and 
(h'scend over (lawbird briille |)alh l,o Crawford 
House. Hefore sunsi't ascend ,M<innl ^Villard. 
walk or ride down llie N'ot(;h to the Willcy Haisc. 

Si.Ktli day : Go to Jackson ami landiN' u|i the 
(tIcii. In the evenim; I'idc to North Conway. 

Seventh day : Ascend .Mount Kiar.sar^rc in the 



rail (or walk) to the loj) of Mount Washiuiiton ; or mornini^. Loiter al)out the drives, wocxls and 
take an e.Mra day and walk around by Jelferson meadows. Take train for H )ston in afternoon. 



A DAY UNDER TIIi: PALISADES. 



DOB and .Vrchie are going to be rich some day; 
but mean time they are living m a boarding 
house. They are clerks. In va( ation they go to 
a quiet place in Connecticut, but tiierc are Sun 
days and holidays that hang heavily on their 




I'lidlns. liv \V. H. Kavi, I'hiladclpliia. 

hands and minds. One hot evening as they met 
at ]\Irs Proggins's none-too-generous table, Bob 
said to his friend. "I wish we could get out of 
this town to-morrow. Fm tired of the noise and 



heat, tired of the brick rows over the way, tired 
of the man who plays the accordeon on the 
second tloor back, tired of going around with 
starched clothes on, tired — " 

"The earih is not made for such fellows as you 
and I," interrupted Archie. "I'm nearly as tired 
of the park, with its ciowds and its ' K( ep off the Grass ' 
signs as I am of the streets, and you know we can't go to 
Lakewood or Newport or Leno.x < r any of those places 
where they charge you a cent a nnnute for breathing. 
How's Conev Island V" 

"Worse than New 

York, except that it's a 
tritle cooler. No, 1 don i 
want that, nor Ko.,-kaway, 
nor South Beach nor 
Long Branch nor anv 
l)lace where you are hus- 
tled and shouted at. 
There's enough of thai 
every day in the week 
v\iihout hunting for it. 
The good places are all so 
far ulf!" 

Archie remarked, 
".Maybe we think >o be- 
cause we don't know 
where the good places 
are. Have you ever been 
to the Palisades of the 
Hudson '!" 

"By George! The 

very spot '. Let's get up 

early, to avoid the crowd, 

and go." 

In the morning the friends were up in good 

season, and about the time their fellow boarders 

were assembling for coffee and hasli they were 

crossing the river from 12Sjth street to Fort Lee. 




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nurse it for weeks with an anxious and lovmg care, when the same anniount will take us 

ON THE PALISADES 

OF THE HUDSON, 

where trees and flowers in wild profusion grow; where we can take our lunch, and 

spend a day in the primeval woods. 



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Twilight Paik, 
Elka Park, 
Platte Clove, 
Tannersville, 
Palenville, 
Saxton and 
Mount Airy, 

And all points of interi;St 

in the Mountains 

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A DAY UNDER THE PALISADES. 



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The weather was still warm, but the morning had 
a delightful freshness in it, and after landing tiicy 
walked nimbly up tlie dusty way and sought the 
foot of the cliil's by short cuts to the ndrlhwarti. 
The sward wore tlie emerald of early summer, the 
trees were in full green, birds were singing in the 
branches and gulls were crying from tue river 
that sjiread broad and blue beside them. Al)ove 
was the edge of the crag with its modern, shabby, 
disused summer-houses tliat mark the site of the 
revolutionary fort, and the sleep riverward slope 
was half masked in shrubbery. IMasses of rock, 
tons in weight, lay piled upon this slope, and as they 
advanced they found the tive-tiuger still a-bloom, a colum- 
bine was nodding from a ledge, wild mustards were putting 
out their yellow crosses, the buttercups were budding and 
the chamomile was in rivalry with the daisy in its spread 
of white and gold. A 
sliy, belated violet peep- 
ed from a shadow, and 
in a spongy hollow the 
fantastic shapes of jack- 
in-the-pulpit reared 
themselves. Delicate 
ferns and velvet moss 
spread a coolness over 
the earth, and the air 
was full of perfume. 
Yet, just across the 
river, the city seethed 
and smoked and the air 
seemed to quiver above 
its red masses of build- 
ing and its barren, rub- 
bish-filled lots. 

"Great Scott!" ex- 
claimed Archie. "To 
think we've been living 
in that town for the last 
eight years and have 
never known of this 
place before !" 

The Palisades are a trap dyke, a result of vol- 
canic energy. Occasionally one finds columnar 
forms there, as in Fingal's Cave in Stnflfa, and the 
more famous Giant's Causeway in Ireland, which 
are the same in their origin. The clilfs of trap 
are twenty miles long, fronting on the river, and 
the dyke is about two miles thick. As to depth, 
perhaps it goes down to the centre of the earth. 
The height of the cliffs is from 200 to 500 feet, 
their base buried in talus to a depth of 100 feet 
or more. 

A road runs along the top of the Palisades, but 
as it is often at a remove from the edge and is 
partlj'^ masked by trees, the breadth and beauty 
of the view are only revealed through openings 
in the foliage. Along the foot of the crags, how- 
ever, runs a path which at one point broadens 
into a road, going nowhere and ending in nothing, 
and sometimes interrupted by masses of stone or 



fallen trunks; and it was this paHi that secnicq 
to oiler to our adventurers the best jjrospect for 
a walk. Tiie outlook is more conlined tlian fnjm 
tlie top, but the view of tlie I'alisades themselves 
is more n.manlie. It is not all solitary. There 
are powder magaziuts and a landing pier; there 
is a stone crusher with a si|ii;did Italian settle- 
ment about it; tii(r(; is ;ui Irislmiiin's cabin wilh 
a patch of "praties;" there is a melancholy de- 
serted house, and there is an odd little hamlet at 
the waters edge, bowered in apple blossoms iu 




Pliotos. liy W. H. Ran, T'hiladolplii.T, 



the spring. Farther up is the pic-nic grove 
called Kock Side Park. But most of the way 
the path extends through a charming solitude. 

"Look!" said Archie, pointing up. "That 
tower of rock is like a cathedral spire." 

"Yes." replied Bob. "But see that immense 
mass that stands out from the face of the cliff 
with trees on the top, like banners. That's like 
one of the ruined castles on the Khine, but 
immensely bigger. " 

While they stood, looking almost straight into 
the air above them, a great bird with a wide 
spread of wing floated into view over the top 
of the trees and swept in wide circles against 
the sky, seeming to symbolize iu its calm, ma- 
jestic flight the wildness and liberty of the scene. 
It was an eagle. An eagle, within three miles of 
New York! 

After they had gone forward, perhaps a mile, 



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A DAY UNDER THE PALISADES. 




the friends ascended one of the longer slopes of 
debris and reached the top of the cliff by many 
windings. The ascent was difficult, but not per- 
ilous, but there are places enough where the skill 
and coolness of the Alpestrian would be required, 
and others yet where they would be entirely 
defied. The view from the top was broad and 
beautiful, extending over wooded shores, the 
Sound, East River, the Long Island coast and 
rolling hills to the north. A lunch that was 
wheedled from Mrs. Proggins was eaten here in 
satisfaction and was washed down with a draught 
from a clear, icy spring when they regained the 
bottom, for the lack of water at the top is one 
of the reasons why this most magnificent build- 
ing site has remained so nearly vacant to this day. 
A mile farther, perhaps — it seemed longer, be- 
cause they stopped often and the way was rough 
— a little cove 
ibent into the 
rich shadow of 
the woods, and 
a beach overlaid 
some half sub- 
merged ridges of 
sandstone. Tide 
Tvas running up, 
and the pebbles 
■chimed in the 
roll of the waves. 
Nobody insight. 
The invitation 
was not to be 
resisted; the 
young men 
whipped off 
their clothes and 
sprang into the 
water, and did 
not resume their 

tramp until after a long loaf en deshabille 
bath cooled them and the sun was now behind the 
wall of rock, so that they could walk without dis 
■ comfort. They caught a glimpse of St. Michael's 
Home, perched on the heights above them, and they 
liad a tough scramble across the debris which had 
Ijeen hurled down by daily blasts at the crusher, 
then the path led down into a romantic amphitheatre 
walled around with dark precipices. Here is a 
road wending to the summit by many a tack 
and zig-zag, from a rotting wharf past a rotting 
summer-house and a brawling cascade to the site 
of the Palisade Mountain House, which was burned 
some years ago, but while this road invited to 
new prospects, it look them back to civilization, 
and that they wanted to avoid. 

Every rod of the way had its charm, and every 
Lour invested the distance with a fresh delight 
of color. A little stone school house was passed 
— where did they find scholars for it V — then a 
.tiny farm. Another scar of a big blast, with 










Their 



derricks for lowering the stone into boats that 
would remove them to New York for conver- 
sion into pavements, checked them for a moment; 
still they .sauntered on, gathering pebbles to cast 
into the brine, stopping to examine curious bits 
of wreckage from the tide, watching the evolu- 
tions of a couple of yachts on the river, picking- 
flowers that withered too soon, and rapturously 
inhaling the fragrance that was borne from other 
blossoms on the passing winds. 

The air was clearing, and Y'onkers began to 
show in a glory of afternoon light that deepened 
with every hour until the city on the hill seemed 
almost to blaze with saffron and crimson. Passing 
schooners took on this color, too, and the steam 
of a locomotive on the opposite shore became a 
vapor of rose. Ever the lofty, lonely cliffs upon 
the west, growing darker and more solemn as 

the day waned ; 
' ever the silver 
: water with its 
; shelly play of 
tint on their 
other hand, sep- 
arating them 
from the culti- 
vated shores on 
the east. 

After some 
wanderings they 
brought up at 
the fishing ham- 
let of East Al- 
pine, or Cape 
F 1 y a w^ a y — a 
name that goes 
back to the time 
when moonshine 
whiskey was 
made a m o n g 
these rocks — and Bob was startled, on looking at 
his watch, to discover that it was five o'clock. 
"It's a sin to go back," .said he, "but it must be 
done. Moreover, I don't mind confessing that 
the air and the ramble have given me an appetite 
for Mrs Proggins' prunes and lioliday mutton." 
"We can return by tramping up the old road, 
back there, and striking over to Engiewood, where 
we can take a train ; or we can get one of these 
fishermeii to carry us across to Mount St. Vincent 
and catch a train on the Central." 

"The sail would be more romantic and would 
give us a little more variety," urged Bob. So 
they descended on the hamlet and soon arranged 
with a tall, weathered young mariner to take 
them across the river. His cat-boat was presently 
spinning over the crisp waves, and the great 
wall of rock stretched wider into view as they 
increased their distance from it- wider and more 
majestic. They were put ashore at the station 
and ten minutes later, as their car swung around 




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the bend at Spiiyten Diiyvil Crock they took a 
long look at the scene wliieh had aeijuired a 
aiew interest in their eyes. "It's as fine as a 
■day in the Adirondai'ks." declared Archie. 
"Better, for it's not so hackneyed." 
"And cost us— how nuich apiece?" 
"llui ! There was five cents on the ' L' road," 
:said J5ol), "and ten cents to Fort Lee by ferry, 
twenty-five cents to the cat-boat man, and twenly- 
«i.x cents fare to the city; sixty-si.x cents all 
told, and well spent." 

They complimented Mrs. Proffcrins on her dinner 
that niu-ht, a thing they had never done before, 
and shocked her so that she agreed to have their 
bed-room chairs mended that very week. They 
did not realize that the dinner tasted good be- 
cause it had the sauce of an hitherto unknown 



hunger ac(iuired in a days tussle witli the founda- 
tions of the Palisades— one (.f the finest bits of 
natural scenery on the planet. 

I'os/srr/pf. — After reading tlie above article two 
of the clerks m tiie publisher's ofiice set out to 
test the possibilities of the trip and to get some 
photographs with wiiich to illustrate h. Tiiey 
covered the ground, or at least the rocks, arrived 
at the north end, failed U> seciu-e the "Lout; 
Fisherman" to ferry them across the river and 
were compelled to scale the precipitous heigjits 
in order to return to the city. They caught the 
train at Englewood and reached their home in 
whole condition. One of the; two liad been a 
sergeant in the British army, was present at Tel- 
el-Kebir and at Majuba Jlill and he don't hesi- 
tate to say that a few such outinirs as "A Day 
l'i\der The Palisades" will (jiialily a man for al- 
most any experience. 



CAMPING OUT. 



^^XE camps out for business occasionally, but 
more camp out for fun. The best fun. in 
the eud, is to camp as if for business. ]Maine 
lumbermen and Adirondack hunters use sense in 
building their shelters. They insist on neither 
pictures nor bnissels carpets for their apartments, 
uor do they invite rheiunatism and pneumonia 
by sleeping in ;ui 
alleged shelter that 
is all drafts and is 
pervious to rain. 
The style of camp 
to be erected must 
be determined by 
season, accessibility 
to town and dura- 
tion of stay. En- 
thusiasts now hunt 
in the northern for- 
ests in midwinter, 
and of course thev 
must have a weather 
proof hut of logs or 
boards covered with 
tar paper. For the 
neighborhooil of 
New York, in the 
summer, something 
lighter and cheaper 
suffices. A tent or 
two is good enough 
and is easily carried. 
For a shm't stay a 

lean-to made of bark, sapliuL'^s or boughs will do. 
The Adirondack "open camp" is only a modification 
of this. For an outing of a week or more a frame 



of ])oles can be si)eedily erected, and it can be 
closed against the weather by canvas, boards, 
hemlock boughs or a combination of all, with 
moss and nuid to stop the chinks. Wood and 
water are necessities. 

There is no lack of good ground within easy 
reach of New "^'ork. The (^iiiet {)()uds of New 






I'hoto. ami 



c.v.ur l.N ADIUuMJACKS. 

.Jersey, tlH> shores of the Sound, the wild hills 
of the Tludsrm, the lake district of western Con- 
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the Palisades of the Hudson ? About opposite 
Spuyten Duyvil they arc as lonely as the St. 
Lawrence as i)icturesque as Lake George, as ad- 
mirably arranged for boating, hshing and bathing 
as Newport, as interesting in 
their flora as any part of the 
state, and as inac- 
cessible to the dis- 
turbing multitude 
as Barren Island. 
Nobody goes there 
and there are charm- 
ing knolls and natu- 
ral lawns, circled 
with evergreens, 
handy to dead wood 
and other fuel, con- 
venient to springs, 

some of which may 

need a little clear- 
ing, to be sure, and, 

for all this, but a 

two mile row or a 

tAvo mile walk to 

civilization. That 

last advantage will 

be thought a detri- 
ment by most peo- 
ple who prefer 

camp to a boarding 

house. Nobody, for 

instance, would 

dream of tenting in 

his own back yard, 

though he would be 

sure to be more 

comfortable there 

than in the wilder- 
ness. There would 

be no adventure, 

you see, no strange- 
ness, novelty, ex 

citement. 
If camping is to 

be only an incident 

in a journey, the 

house will l)e a mere 

cover for the night. 

In the West, wbere rains are light, 

the prospector carries little more 

than his blanket, rifle, pick, 

matches and food. If he has a 

burro he can take a little more. 

In the eastern wilds this outfit is 

a pretty good basis, and when 

divided among a party of three, fi.ur or five 

does not burden any of them heavily, even when 

there is added a hatchet, rul)ber coats, pail, 

kettle, fryiug-i)an, coflfee-pot, and eating utensils. 

The use of aluminum for cooking utensils olfers 

a decided iiain 




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durability, cleanliness and shaped edifice of bark 



lightness over tin and iron. A cooking outfit 
for six is made especially for hunters. It packs, 
into a box less than a foot square and com- 
prises fifty-seven articles that nest into each other. 
If the nights be free from rain there 
is no need to erect even a shelter. A pro- 
jecting ledge, a tree 
with heavy foliage, 
a few strips of bark 
slanted against a 
rock or a bough are 
often enough, any 
way, especially if 
the sleepers have a 
fire going at their 
feet. Again, in 
countries where 
hunters, miners, and 
lumbermen resort, 
there is often to be 
found a deserted 
cabin with a fairly 
tight roof. As these 
cabins, however, are 
common!}'' foul with 
mouldy boots, fungi 
and old cans, and 
as they suggest pos- 
sibilities of vermin, 
a bed of leaves or 
hemlock boughs is 
preferable. 

Arrived at the 
]dace where it is 
intended to settle 
for some days, the 
advantages of the 
spot in respect of 
hunting, fishing, 
boating, bathing, 
scenery and the like 
having been re- 
viewed, let it be 
assured that the 
habitation will 
stand on a slight 
rise, so that in case 
of rain the water will not 
reach its occupants. A 
slope to drain the water is 
desirable and hollows are 
to be avoided for that rea- 
son. If you are to be under 
canvas — and you can hire 
a tent, you know, or 
use a sail, if you don't want to go in heavy — 
two uprights and a ridge pole are all the car- 
penter work that is necessary. Dig a small gut- 
ter about the tent for drainage. A log house 
is better if your stay is to be long. A tent- 
ion g the feasible 



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things, tlic bark being tacked against tiie ri(li;-c 
pole. If near a saw mill a lit lie bouse can be 
put up. Or a combination ol' logs, bark and 
canvas can be employed. 

A rustic-looking structure is made by marking 
■off a square space, driving a stout upright a^t 
each corner, tacking and tying half a dozen 
poles to each pair, thus eluding in tlic li 
except on the side wiiere the 
■door is to be, and tilling in 
the interstices with boughs, 
rushes or both. The back 
pair of uprigiits can be made 
liigher tlian the front, or vice 
versa, so tliat the roof shall 
liave a slant to shed rain. 

A rack of poles iu-duurs, 
raised a few inches from the 
ground on the crotches of 
sticks driven r-r-^-. — 

[ ■ 

■deep into the 
earth, is the bed- 
.stead. Itiscov- 
■ered with small 
hemlock or tam- 
arack boughs, 
made soft by 
strewing pine 
needles over it, 
and a more 
springy and fra- 
grant bed does 
not exist. Then 
come the blank- 
ets and pillows. 
Except a shelf of 
slab or bark, and 
a few hooks for 
clothing, placed 
in the roof poles, 
this is about all 
the furnishing 
that is needed. 

The kitchen 
and dining-room 
are in the open 
•air. The kitchen 
is a lire on the 
ground. A pot 

hangs over it on a tripod or a cross bar, and a 
little tin oven, or a larger one made of stones 







Turn about is fair ])lay, and lliere must )te 
an early undersiandiiig as to llu; ap]iportiomnent 
of duties, if there are more than two people in 
cam]). Washing, cooking, hewing wood, draw- 
ing water and attending to lires must fall to 
somel)0(lys lot. Don't let this clioice be one of 
chance liowever. If the hewer of wood l>rin;:s 
in green -wood tlie cook will get mad. The cook 

should not be like liie 
'^ theological student — 
now a bislio|) — who 
was left one <'ay in 
charge of, atid toc(.ok 
for, a camp in the 
wilderness, and 
thinking that tlie 
whole stock of rice 
might as well be 
cooked at once, to 
: save further 
trouble, pro- 
ceeded to do it. 
lie tilled their 
only i)ot full of 
rice, and having 
iieard that rice 
is Itetter if 
"cooked dry," 
he ndded a little 
water, put on 
the cover and 
left it to stew; 
the rice swelh d 
and increased in 
volume so rapid- 
ly that he post- 
poned liis other 
culinary exer- 
cises and was 
kept busy for a 
tiresome time, 
and with in- 
creasing dismay, 
spooning the 
growing mass 
into pails and 
pans, until he 
finally had 
everything tilled 




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and had 1o use some of his table plates ; on tlieir re- 
turn to the camp his associates concluded, unani- 
and clay Avill do tiie baking, though potatoes mously, to dispense with his services as a cook ; he 



roasted in hot ashes are not bad. For the in- 
.sufficieucies of camp cookery a sharp appetite 
generally makes amends. The tal)le may be 
either a big stump or a wide board on uprights. 
Packing boxes serve as seats, but if you woidd be a 
veritable woodland dude you will fasten planks to 
shorter uprights on either side of the table, for 
benches. If yomig folks are in the party they will 
Tvant a swing attached to some convenient tree. 



volunteered to hew water and driw wood for the rest 
of their stay if they would never again mention 
rice in his hearing. And speaking of lires, pray 
heed this injunction, not only f(n- your own good 
but for the public benefit. year throw lighted 
matches and cigars among dry leaves : never allow 
the flames to spread far from yom- lireplace ; 
nei-er go to sleep with a tire burning, if the wind 
is higli, unless a rain is falling at the same time; 



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CAIMPIXG OUT. 



always extinguish the last spark before leaving 
camp in the morning. Carelessness in these mat- 
ters costs this nation many lives and millions of 
dollars every year, while the burning away of the 
forests dries up the water sources and blasts the 
face of the country. 

If farms are near at hand, or shops not too 
far off, it will be easy to keep the table sup- 
plied with fruits, fresh milk and vegetables ; if 
not, the outfit must be taken into the wood in 
bulk. Flour, crackers, bacon, potatoes, rice, 
coffee, tea, salt, pepper and sugar are stand-bys, 
and milk and other luxuries must be taken in cans. 
Never keep loaded firearms about, and let the am- 
munition be away from the fire and the risk of jar 
and friction. Flies and mosquitoes and the pesky 
little " no-see-'um-heap-feel-'ums " may disturb the 
repose of the company, and sometimes a snuidge 
of dami3 leaves is necessary to secure relief. A 
bit of mosquito netting for doors and windows, 
bags of the same stuff to slip over the head, 
and gloves for the hands are occasionally useful, 
but Avhen tramping or fishing, the face and hands 
are protected, for an hour at a time, by a slight 
anointing with a mixture of tar, pennyroyal and 
vaseline. 

Be sure that the outfit comprises a few good 
books or magazines, for a rainy or foggy daj- 
in the woods is dismal indeed. Make some 
arrangement at the nearest post otHce or tele- 
graph station for the forwarding of important 
messages. 

But volumes of suggestions will not make up 
for lack of adaptability to circumstances in the 
camp. You must have gumption, and a willing- 
ness to take things as they c ime to you . Ask 
some old soldier for advice. He will tell you thfit, 
in a rain, three fence rails will make a bed under 
which the water will run, narrow to be sure, 
but much more comfortable than a wet sod; he 
will tell you how to keep a fire alive for day 
and night; how a fry-pan, properly handled, will 
serve a whole meal; in short, he will tell you of 
many things that he never anticipated, but ar- 
ranged for as they caiue; and so must the 
camper. 

For a few days trip everything necessary can 
be carried from home, except food and water. 
The writer was fortunate in having a teacher 
who was an older sort of boy. He once pro- 
posed to three of us larger school-boys to take 
to the woods for two nights. For each, a good 
heavy blanket, a large towel, a bit of soap. 
extra socks and handkerchiefs, and such other 
little things as we each thought necessary; for 
general use, a hatchet, an old-fashioned bowie 
knife or the like, some matches, a couple of cups 
and canteens, a few nails, some stout cord, etc., 
&c. ; the whole divided into loads convenient for 
each of the party. We went to Cold Spring, on 
the Hudson; hired a row-boat, crossed the river 



to the valley or basin that lies between Cro' Nest, 
and Storm King. It was an almost unbrokeru 
wilderness; only one farm-house and a path west- 
ward over the mountain. We secured, and left 
the boat on the shore, shouldered our loads;, 
ftnnid in the woods a small clearing, in Avhich 
one made a fire, while the others gathered the- 
smaller branches of the hemlock, and with larger- 
boughs, nails and cord made a shelter and bed 
under a wide-spreading low-branched tree. We- 
were too tired to linger long after nightfall 
around the fire, and wrapped in oiu* blankets, witli 
handkerchiefs around our heads, we slept the 
sweetest sleep of our lives on the deep piled, fra- 
grant bed. We woke the echoes, at the first 
break of day, and long before mid-morn had 
scaled the ledges of Storm King to its summit, 
where we stood above the morning mist that 
filled the depths below us; the brilliant summer 
sun Avas shining down upon a field of hummocky 
snoAv — a sight never to be forgotten. A breeze 
from the north soon carried off the fleecy mass- 
below and the magnificent A'alley Avas disclosed, a 
vieAV beautiful beyond description. The afternoon 
Avas spent on the river, and in the CA'ening Ave- 
persuaded the good people of the only house, to- 
furnish us enough bread, eggs, milk, &c., for sup- 
per and breakfast, spent the night at our camp, 
and in the morning recrossed the river and re- 
turned home. Our food in the Avoods Avas chiefly 
packed at home, re-inforced by a fcAV things, 
bought at Cold Spring and at the farm-house. 
It Avas an inexpensive outing, croAvded Avith ex- 
periences and sensations absolutely ncAv and novel, 
and beneficial and pleasurable in every Avay. 

A large camping p irty is a matter of business. 
The pictures, hercAvith, shoAv how much there is. 
to it; although nothing can shoAv, or measure, the 
reviving power of such a life for a Aveek or two. 
The parties shoAvn are both "Clubs," Avhich have, 
in the course of years, accumulated a A-ery com- 
plete equipment, as comfortable in all essentials, 
as an average summer boarding-house. They are 
Jerseyites, and have pitched their tents at Green 
Pond near NcAvfoundland, Avhere there is a table 
supply of fish waiting to be caught. The ex- 
penses of the party of eight persons for ten days, 
profiting, of course, by their past experiences is, 
for each adult, about twenty cents a day for 
victuals and forty cents a day for ice, boats^ 
drinks and expenses; abundance of good whole- 
some food to eat. 

Camping out is not for invalids, or for tender 
or timorous souls. There are times Avhen, Avithia 
a fcAV liours, the air is dry and Avet, hot and cold, 
changes that make it better that an invalid be- 
Avell housed. And there are moments in the si- 
lent, ghostly Avatches of the night, Avhen a mov- 
ing insect, or rustling bough, or moaning zephyr, 
or the melancholy hoot of an oavI, Avill raise the 
hair and stop the lite-current of a timid listener. 

Camp life is for the lusty and active and ro- 
bust, Avith good appetites and good temper and 
good sense, and for such there is an immense re- 
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'T'nERE is uo reason why Vermont slinnld not 
*■ be made more of tlian it is. New Hamp- 
shire outdoes it in the iieiniit of its mountains, 
Maine in tlie extent of its forests, New York in 
the area of its tmitivated districts, Canachi in 
liunting antl tisllin^• and New Jersey in water 
front, ])ut Vermont combines these tliini^-s in 
moderation and adds a certain iiomcly \\\'f ami 
idyllic beauty that are almost i>;'cuiiar to it. 
People who are 
in tlie habit of 
going tliere re- 
turn tlianks that 
it has not become 
fasliionable, and 
therein is one of 
its best delights. 
The Green 
Mountain state 
is proba])ly. for 
its size, the most 
tliinly settled 
and poorest in 
aggregate capi- 
tal of the Atlan- 
tic c o m m o n - 
wealths; yet, no- 
wliere will be 
found rural com- 
munities more 
industrious, in- 
telligent and 
thrifty. There 
are few wage 
workers and few 
tenants. To the 
tourist every 
township has at- 
tractions of its 
own. Vermont 
is for folk of 
moderate means 
and quiet tastes. 
Such will be de- 
hglited with tlie 
([uiet farms on Lake Champlain witli the Alle- 
ghanies on the east and Adimndacks glooming 
across the water ; tliey will be charmed with tlie 
valley of the Connecticut, with gentle hills bend- 
ing toward it on either side ; tliej' will admire 
the pretty lakes, like Dunmore and Memphre- 
magog, and wikl rivers like the Bhick, White and 
Winooski ; they will be entertained if they get 
into the artist colony in the shadow of Ascutney, 




I'huto. liy A. v.. SiMiil^liii.;. Wuodstock, Vt. 
QUECHEE GULF, NE 



and they will be impressed by the majesty and 
solitude of .Mount .Manstield, .Mount Eipiino.x and 
Camels Hump. 

So mucli talk was ma(h' a few years ago about 
the dangers incurred by the wholesale, cutting 
away of the timber that a commission was sent 
out to estimate the loss sustained in that respect, 
in ten years. 'l"o every ones surprise, il was 
lound that tlie forests had actually increased. So, 

if yon want 
camping or any 
other manner of 
rough life, Ver- 
mont is as g(K)d 
a State as any, 
while if quiet i.s 
sought, it is ob- 
tainable in any 
one of a thous- 
and farm houses 
where hoi'des of 
boarders have 
not yet spoiled 
the people. 

Enough of 
g e n e r a 1 i t i e s . 
S u p p o s e w e 
have a Aveek to 
spare and want 
to sjiend it in a 
new field. We 
step aboard of a 
t r a in at the 
Grand Central 
one morning at 
nine o'clock and 
after a plea.saut 
ride acro.ss Con- 
nect icut and 
.Massachusetts, 
with glimpses of 
Mounts Tom and 
Holyoke, each 
topped by its 
hotel and afford- 



.\R WOODSTOCK. VT. 

'ovclv view, we reach the Vermont border 



ing a 

We see little of the agreeable village of Brattleboro, 
where Hudyard Kipling lives, Jim Fisk is buried 
and Mary Howe's voice was discovered, but we 
leave the cars at Bellows Falls, shortly, and have 
a couple of hours to wait for a train on the 
Central Vermont. 

There is no need to pine, or to beg the agent 
to let vou no into the swearing room because 



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AMONG THE GREEN HILLS. 



you have to wait at a station. Alway.s travel 
witli a book. Also, use your eyes. Humanity is 
frequently as interesting as books, and rare speci- 
mens of it are found in a country depot. But 
you want to roam about a little. Perhaps you 
are fond of botany or minerals. Anyhow, you 
want to see the "fall" that gives the name to the 
place— a forty foot plunge of the Connecticut, 
down a narrow gorge. Here the water is so 
compressed that one writer. Rev. Hugh Peters 
who, no doubt, be- 
lieved what he said , 
declared that a 
crowbar could not 
be driven into it ! 
If there is time, a 
scramble up the W 
steep and ledgy 
Mount Kilburn 
will satisfy the 
fondness for adven- 
ture, but the time 
may also be spent 
in getting ahead of 
the railroad com- 
pany. 

As it will be four 
hours before you 
can leave on the 
cars, you can ram- 
ble ahead on foot 
to Bartonsville (ten 
miles) and take 
your supper in one 
of the quaintest old 
taverns in the 
State, where they 
probably do not 
receive a dozen 
guests a year. Let 
us suppose that 
you are then re- 
vived, or are still 
fresh, and resolve 
to plod on about 
four miles to Ches- 
ter. It is a com- 
fortable little town 
hotel. The walk 




Photos, by R. M. Mcintosh, Northlleld, Vt. 

AMONG THE MOUNTAINS. 



Chester is, and has a good 
is delightful, roads a trifle 
rough, may be, but outlooks worth the labor; 
tokens of rural thrift and content abundant ; cold 
springs to drink from and berries to pick ; the 
air full of healing odors of pine and spruce : 
flowers nod along the wayside and the rising 
breeze is cool. You hear the cow-bells clanking 
in the valley as the herds go home, and a peace- 
ful sound of waters drones through the evening. 
Dusk falls, lights appear, you are in Chester. 

Take the train next morning and go ten miles 
to Cavendish, there to explore the passage of 
Black River, through a canon half a mile long. 



Never heard of it '? So much the better. It will 
be the pleasanter surprise, for it is one of the 
most romantic bits of scenery in the State. No- 
tice the caves, balconies, fallen ledges, and the 
pot holes where boulders, whirled around in ed- 
dies, have cut deep wells into the living rock. 
Then, on to Proctorsville, thirty minutes walk, 
still following the railroad, and dine at the an- 
cient Eagle tavern. A lovely village, this, with 
in elm sown intervale like those in the White 

^Mountains, and the 
hills ranged at 
what artists will 
tell you is land- 
scape distance; big, 
blue billows on the 
west, the Alpine 
form of Ascutney 
-••Three Brothers" 
is the meaning of 
the name — on the 
east, and minor 
heights closing on 
the other sides. 

After d inner 
make a leisurely 
ascent of Fletchers 
Hill and enjoy the 
wide and exquisite 
prospect, or visit 
the '•Gulf" to the 
south — a dark val- 
ley, a thousand feet 
deep, like the 
cloves of the Cats- 
kills and notches 
of the White Moun- 
tains, but narrow- 
er. Geologists tell 
us that it was the 
scene of a cata- 
clysm when a great 
lake burst through 
the mountain dam. 
The hamlet of 
Proctorsville has, 
])erha]is, two hun- 



dred and flfty inhabitants, but it has three churches, 
a good school, several industries and a public 
library. Two governors were born here. 

Ludlow is three miles farther northwest, and 
the mountains impend upon it more steeply. It 
is a town of consequence, and boarders are a 
shade too numerous. But pause here long 
enough to visit Plymouth ponds. Drive out — 
for livery charges are low — and think how the 
populace would swarm about these little lakes, 
chained through the deep valley of the Black, 
if they were within twenty miles of the metro- 
polis. Though not so large, they are as fair as 
famed Killarney. There is a gold mine close by. 



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73 



A.MOXG Till-: GRi;i:x HILLS. 



Now we will take train airain, and after clinib- 
inu" (iver a shonlder of Ludlow :Mountain we 
spin down a steep iinidr Id Itulland. a plcasanl 



auo, l)y the Ivirl of Dninnoiv, wlio wa<lcd into 
it and cniplicd a ylass of wine as a eliristenin.ir 
ceremony. A little farther are Middlclniry with 
town with an opera house and oilier improve- its college; Vergennes, 






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MIKKOIi L.A.KE- 



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inents that we 
from, and here 
;dl directions; 



came up here to get away 
we can make excursions in 
to Senator Proctor's quarries 
where the purest statuary marble is taken out ; 
to Clarendon Springs, seven miles away, where 
j'ou may l)e cured of diseases that 3'ou never 
liad, and at the same 
time tickle your palate 
with natural seltzer ; to 
Killingtou Peak, nine 
miles eastward, com- 
manding a view over 
four states, from its top, 
4,0()() and odd feet above 
the sea ; to the mines 
and quarries of iron, 
manganese and kaolin 
near Brandon. 

From Rutland you 
•can go b a c k as you 
•came, or you can return 
to New York l)y way of 
Saratoga and Albany; 
Tjut if your vac a tio n 
holds out, keep on north- 
ward. You will pass 
the beautiful, tish tilled 
lake that was n a me d 
for himself, 125 years 



the smallest incorporated 
eity in the u iiion ; the 
medicinal spiings of 
Elgin ; then, the silver 
sheet of C'hanqdain \in- 
folds it se I f. with the 
Ad irond acks heajx-d 
along its farther shore, 
and you .n-rive at Burl- 
ington, the b i g <r cs t, 
busiest, ha nd som est 
town in the state. 

You will be assailed 
with a temptation to 
take steamer and see a 
little of those Adiron- 
dacks, or at least, 
Au.saljJe Chasm, and it 
would be delighttul to 
traverse the lake by 
steamer, then run across 
to Lake George and go 
back to New York that 
way ; it is easy, too, to 
reach Montreal; but 
hold to your resolve to 
get better actjuainted 
with Vermont. The other trips will keep. Turn 
east and proceed up the valley of the Winooski. 
Time does not allow for everything of iiUerest 
on this stream (whose Indian name, signifying 
Wild Onion) is so delightfidly irrelevant, although 
the savage gorge at Bolton is Avorth a visit. 





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74 



AMONG THE GREEN HILLS. 



But climb Camels Hump, or, better yet, its lof- 
tier neighbor, Mount Manstield. 

Here is a double peak, commanding a glorious 
view. It is the tallest of the Green Mountains, 
4,348 feet high; equal to the average of the Adi- 
rondacks and Wliite Moiuitains, but having the 
advantage which 
they do not pos- 
sess, of com^Dara- 
tive isolation from 
the main range. 
The departure for 
Stowe, a pretty 
village at the base 
of the mountain — 
the Saratoga of 
Vermont, they try 
to call it — is made 
by stage from 
AY aterbury, a n d 
it is nine miles 
thence to the 
summit. At a ho- 
tel near the top 
people often en- 
joy the sunsets 
and sunrises. The 
sceuerj' of the 
ascent has been 
compared to that 
of the Tyrol, and 
the view from the 
summit is held 
Ijy many moun- 
taineers to be the 
finest in New 
England. 

Continuing east- 
ward, the train 
passes within a 
mile of M o n t - 
pelier, with its 
attractive State 

House and its pleasant society, but Avith little 
that the hasty tourist needs to care for, and 
presently White River Junction is reached. One 
may now diversify his trip by running over to 
the White Mountains, or down to Portland or 
Boston, but Vy'e will suppose that he is traveling 




Photos, by It. M. Mcintosh, Northtielci, Vt. 

ON MOUNT MANSFIELD 



on a schedule and that he returns down the 
Connecticut Valley. ile may break his trip at 
Windsor and climb Ascutney, a peak that rises- 
in the valley like a monument. As he passes- 
Bellows Falls he has completed a rough circle- 
tliat has taken him through the finest parts of 

the state. Con- 
tinuing down he- 
can, if his time- 
holds out, spend 
"the night on 
Mount Holyoke- 
or put in a day 
at the pleasant 
Yankee towns of 
Springfield and 
Hartford. Sup- 
posing that side- 
trips are omitted, 
however, here is- 
a schedule of 
time for the Ver- 
mont vacation. 
Train from Ncav 
York to Bellows. 
Falls, walk to 
Chester, one day ; 
C a V e n d i s h and 
Proctorsville, one 
day ; Ludlow, 
Plymouth Ponds; 
and on to Rut- 
1 a n (1 , one day ;. 
excursions a bout 
Rutland, one- 
day ; to Burling- 
ton, thence ta 
Stowe, one day ;. 
Mount Manstield, 
one day ; return 
to N e w Y o r k , 
one day. As ta 
expense; hotel 
rates are reasonable, stage fares moderate and 
all services low as compared with what they 
are in the White Mountains, at Niagara and 
Newport. Allow for hotels and carriages about 
|20, for train fares, |17, and incidentals, |5. 
Total, about !t;42. 



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75 



tra\'i:l afoot. 

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HAW rUOKNE likens tlie view of 
that is seen from a railroad t 
reverse of a tapestry. To see the ri 
the picture we must take the drive ( 
is the habit of 
railroadsto skulk ^ 
throug'li tow ns 
by the back way: 
to avoid briii'ht 
and pleasant 
streets, and take 
up with factories 
and tenements, 
or even to go 
tlirough tunnels 
and sunken 
ways, enveloped 
in smoke and 
darkness. The 
r u r a I districts 
show^ their worst 
side to the cars. 

From time im- 
memorial a jour- 
ney afoot through 
the country has 
been a synonym 
for pleasure and 
joUity, and its 
humors are cur- 
rent in modern 
illustrated litera- 
ture, where the 
ragged t r a m p 
and the impecu- 
nious actor 
"counting ties" 
b e t w e e n t h e 
place where he 
has stranded and 
his home, are 
stock subjects of 
satire. Coach 
a n d c a r r i a g e 
journeys, horse- 
back rides, and 
bicycle excur- 
sions, are more 
rapid, dashing, 
exciting, for the 
moment, but 
there are many 
who find that in 
the long run — or 
walk— they are 



a country 
rain to the 
ght side of 
)r path. It 



no more enjoy al)le or exliilaratiiig than tin- 
pedestrian tour. 

Americans liavc l)een sl(nv to trust to tlieir own 
feit, and while tlie relative badness of oiir roads 

may explain, ii» 
a iinasure, wliy 
walking is less 
|Mii(nhir Iiere 
than in Europe, 
by the same 
token, it mak<'!4 
the universal re- 
iiince on wagons 
more unaccount- 
able. A farmer 
wilispendtifteen 
nnnutes catch- 
ing and liarness- 




mg 



a horse, to 
go a mile, and 
you can walk a 
mile in lifteen 
minutes. The 
e i t y man will 
^tanil on a cor- 
ner for se V e n or 
eight minutes wait- 
ing for a street car 
to carry him to a 
distance that he 
eouUl reach by 
walking in the same 
ime. and his ride 
will ])(• made mis- 
( rable by crowd- 
ing, tramplii'-g" 
and f o u 1 air. 
As to fatigue 
and discomfort, 
some people tind 
it as hard to sit 
in a constrained 
position for ten 
or twelve miUs. 
liespattered with 
mud or dust by 
horses, as to get 
down and go 
afoot for the 
same distance. 

The trouble 
with our people 
seems to be that 
they are afraid 



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76 



TRAVEL AFOOT. 



to begin. There are able-bodied fellows, wide 
awake, appreeiative of the beauties of nature, 
fond of exercise, not timid, who are always go- 
ing to take a pedestrian tour as soon as John 
and James and Thomas can leave town at the 
same time and help tlicm to take it. In most 

oases that time _ 

never comes. [ 
When the date ar- 
rives for starting, 
John has decided 
that he would 
rather go yacht- 
ing, James has 
concluded that as 
it begins to look 
like work, he will 
sojourn easily at 
a summer hotel, 
and T h o m a s " 
youngest boy has 
measles; so tin- 
original projectoi- 
meekly gives it up 
and goes to sonir 
resort where he 
■can be in a crowil 
and dress and 
dance and flirl 
away his leisure. 

Of course, it is 
pleasant if a few 
■congenial spirits 
■can take an out- 
ing together, ant 
it is iustructi vc 
too ; for the lirst 
two or three days 
■of such a walk 
give a man a bet- 
ter idea of his 
friends than he 
will have obtained 
in years of con- 
ventional town 
life. Some, that 
Jiave appeared dull 
l)efore, bubble 
with jollit}' under 
the inspiration of 
fresh mornings 
and pleasant scene- 
ry ; some that he 
thought unin- 
formed prove to 
l)e dictionaries of knowledge about the things 
that are met and seen ; .some are amiable and 
self-sacriticing, gladly falling in with the views 
of the majority, even when opposed to their 
personal wishes, and some are practically helpful 
by their strength and " haudiness." There are 



1 




offsets to men like this, in the fellow who wants 
the others to do as he likes — to rise, eat, sleep, 
rest and go forward when he is moved to do 
so ; in the scolder and fault finder ; in the one 
who nurses his liver or his blisters and always 
desires the others to lioM back for him, making 

them late every 
night, and com- 
pelling them to eat 
cold dinners: in 
the cheerful man 
Avith plenty of 
money who, \\n- 
consciously, makis 
himself a thorn in 
the sides of his 
poorer comrades 
)y ordering the 
lest rooms, tipping 
servants liberally, 
having exjieusive 
wines with his 
meals, smoking 
costly cigars and 
otherwise setting 
a pace that the 
others cannot follow, 
or, if he asks them to 
share his benefits, giving them a 
fear that they are the 
victims of a respectable 
charity ; in the delight- 
ful enthusiast who 
wants to stop every 
few minutes t o 
sketch, or botanize, 
or catch fish, and 
who would not get 
ahead five miles a 
day if he were 
alone. 

So, considering 
what chances one 
takes with a party, 
it is a question if 
a man does not get 
on better by him- 
self or, perhaps, 
with one com- 
panion — his bosom 
friend, his brother 
or his wife. Do 
not be surprised 
that a wife should 
e m e n t i o n e d . 
There is an editor in New 
York whose wife goes off with him on tramps 
where they put thirty-five miles a day behind 
them. A dog is a pretty good chum for steady 
company, and one seldom quarrels with him, 
while he has an unfailing supply of good spirits. 



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TRAVEL AFOOT. 



Personal freedom is one of tlie first eharnis 
of a pedestrian tonr, and the nearer alone one is, 
or the more tmanimous he is with his environ- 
ment, tlie li'reater will tlial freedom l)e. 'I"he 
feeling of solitude that may ojipress iiini a liltie 
at first, rapidly disappears it a man's luad lias 
anytliinsi' inside of it. for then he is reasonably 
svii'e to tind good eoinjiany before tlie second day 
is over — and there are many of us who would be 
the better for a chance like this to gel ac(iuainted 
with ourselves. Beside, the sense and wit of the 
people that lie meets are as likely to be pleasant 
and prolitable as the talk of his friends. There 
is an objection to fandliarity with strangers, but 
while this holds well enough on a race track, oral 
the places called "pleasure resorts" few of us 
can say that we ever met a farmer wiio would 
abuse a contidenc(! or take an unjust advantage of 
a stranger. Considered as a class, the men who till 
our fields, though they ai'e sometimes illiterate, 
often rough and usually poor, are as frank and 
honest as the sunshine. A lift of a couple of miles 
in the wagon of some gninger who is going your 
way is a pleasant break in the days ])rogress. and 
if there is rormi (m the seat beside him, it will al- 
most invariably be offered. In this res])ect our 
countryman is a great improvement on the Euro- 
pean peasant. The latter is a soggy personage, 
without the eagerness of mind that inspires the 
Yankee to acquire new friends and new ideas, and 
with no sense of hospitality. He would like to 
know something about America, to be sure, bul, 
unless yon tell him what he exjx'cts to hear, he 
has a poor opinion of your veracity. 

The Ann'rican farmer reads a paper and can 
talk intelligently on public questions. There is 
a missionary work to be done with him in the 
matter of getting good roads through his town- 
ship ; he wants to have it made plain to him 
that a little more money and work would be 
ec<momy in the end, for broad, smooth high- 
ways will not cripple his stock nor his wagon. 

The lirst day of the lirst pedestrian tour 1 
ever made, furnished me with sundry object 
lessons in the art of how not to make roads. 
It was along the Connecticait Valley, during a 
heavy freshet. 3Iy first days trami) Avas from 
Hartford to Holyoke--about Ihirty-four miles by 
road, but a long forty by the way I had to 
o-o — a stiff days work, for a novice, and whew ! 
didn't my bones ache that night ! A good part 
of the way it was fair going, but when the 
road ran into hollows, that were now tilled with 
water, I was forced to make long detours or to 
cross by bojit. Had the builders maintained 
the grade of the mad, they not only would 
have kept it open for travel al times of such 
inundation, but the embankment across these 
glens would have served as a dike, to keep the 
water from spreading into the fields behind it 



and Hooding Ihe cellars of houses that liad been 
built there. The severe rains had overllowed the 
brooks, and as I coiilinued norlliward I ])assed 
the ruins of dozens of lliinsy bridges, laid over 
the si reams at so slight an elevation as to allow 
I'lir almost no increa'^e in the volume of water. 
Ill |ilaces where tiie road hud been a mere make- 
shift cuttiiiu-. between banks, liie water had made 
an artiticial chamiel and iiad poured Ihroiigji, cul- 
tiiig it into a V shape and making it nearly im- 
passable fill' teams. Proper bi-eadth and lirmne.ss 
for these I'oads, with bordering gutters, would 
have obviated all this. The ruin anil the inter- 
ference with business wroiight in that one fresiiet 
was, no doubt, ten limes greater than the e.v- 
pense would have been of guarding against it. 

Tills matter is spoken of at some length, because 
it bears on the choice of route. The pedestrian 
does not want to get into the sort of comitry 
tiiat has sucli roads, or is liable to liave them 
aft<r a rain. Tiie roads in the South average 
a little worse than tiiose in any other jiart of 
the country. Those in the Itocky Mountain belt 
would be worse, but they are saved from that 
distinction by their relative dryness. Again, the 
west is enterprising. 

It was interesting, if humiliating, to coiupare 
these country roads with others that I subse- 
(luently traversed in England, Wales, Germany 
and Switzerland — broad, linn, stoutly bridged 
and wo'iderfully clean, swept, evidently, at fre- 
([ueiit intervals, mended promptly and freed from 
stones, for even a pebble, the size of a hen's 
egg. is an unusual sight, except in the little 
l)ile collected for removal, beside the Avay. On 
these splendid highways it is conunon to meet 
people who travel afoot for the love of it — men, 
women and children on vacations, students spy- 
iuix out the land, families moving deliberately 
from iilace to place. In the English hill and 
lake districts you often see paterfamilias, in stout 
brogans and velveteens, plodding sturdily with a 
bevy of sjxirtive youths and rapturous maidens 
about him. a vision of health and content. 
What a jiity that we do not see the like among 
our stately hills and idyllic vaHeys. But the 
time will come— as the villain always says in 
l]„. j,i;,y— for as surely as travelers make roads, 
these roads make travelers. 

If one wants to know a country, the quickest 
way to get information is the slowest way: go 
afoot, mix with the people, stop at their inns 
and smoke your pipe in their kitchens. The man 
who hurries through a region, seeing the railroad 
stations, which are like other railroad .stations, 
the best iiotels, wliicli are the same as the best 
hotels the world over, and the conventional 
museums and galleries aiul churches, gets the 
same idea of it that he would get of an American 
town by stopping for a day with the wealthiest 



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TRAVEL AFOOT. 



deacon in the place and looking through his 
photograi^h album. One of the beauties of pe- 
destrian travel is that little is expected of you. 
The man who jogs about on a horse is supposed 
to be fairly well to do ; he is charged for pre- 
sumptive wealth, any way, and is expected to 
present himself 
about places of 
public resort in 
his Sunday clothes; 
but the walker is 
like the soldier, 
his dress is the 
only one he has, 
and it is dignified 
by the service it 
represents. 

Preparations for 
a walking tour ? 
They are few. 
Try to leave home 
with money 
enough to get 
back, and plan 
your excursion 
with moderate accura 
cy, deciding what you 
want most to see, how 
long to stay at certain 
places, and getting a 
notion of the geogra- 
phy of the region, with 
a few points about its 
history. All this if 
there is time to do it. 

As to dress, just 
wear your old 
clothes — not the 
very oldest, be- 
cause you don't . 
want to fall to 
pieces in the street, 
so to speak, nor 
to be suspected by 
the idle fellows on 
the corner of re- 
lationship with 
"Weary Ragglcs." 
You don't want to 
enter your hotel 
by the back way. 
Gray is the best 
color for a tramp- 
cr, because it does 
not show dust and 
stain, as black and blue will do. Nobody is com- 
fortalile in stiff linen, no matter whether he thinks 
he is or not ; but, though we wear it for appear- 
ance sake in town, it is the height of absurdity 
to do so on a tramp, for perspiration will pres- 



ently wilt the starch out of it and the dust will 
adhere to its moist surface. So, wear a flannel 
shirt, or a linen shirt with no starch in it, or a 
percale or madras. A soft hat, perforated for ven- 
tilation, or a liglit helmet make the best head gear. 
The shoes must be large enough, shaped to the feet 

by use, and may 
be softened and 
made water-proof 
by suet, tallo^v or 
oil, but, as leather 
thus treated is apt 
to cause sweating, 
it is as well not to 
grease them. 

The Appalach- 
ian Club discoun- 
tenances the use 
of canes for moun- 
tain walks. Each 
to his liking. I 
would as soon 
think of going 
away without a 
knife or a comb 
'or a tooth-brush 
or a night-gown 
or a gossamer rub- 
l>er coat — the only 
freight that the 
pedestrian needs 
to carry — as a 
stick. If I cut it 
myself, from a 
sapling, so much 
the better, and the 
more worthless it 
is the better it 
suits me. A light, 
stout stick, about 
four feet long, is 
what I commonly 
choose. There are 
times when jou 
may want to use 
such a cudgel on 
a dog or a snake, 
or possibly a 
tramp. It is handy 
to sound streams 
and pot holes and 
crevices with ; i t 
will help you to 
jump a ravine or 
bog ; it urges you 
along the road, but the principal good of it is 
that it gives your hands something to do, and it 
is company. If you lose it, no matter ; there are 
plenty like it growing by the wayside. Gold- 
headed canes do not grow there, so it is better 




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mot to take them. In the matter of outfit. I add 
ouly to the artieles just named a watch, a notc- 
3K)ok, a peneil. a novel and a map m a uui(h' 
■J)()(ik. A map is often sullieient. l)ut if you are 
goiny thi'ough the Wliite Mountains, for examjile. 
It wouUl be folly to refuse tiie assistance of so ad- 
jniralile a guide to that reiiion as tiie one known 
4is Osgood's, for it holds about all liiat one wants 
or needs to know. These things ean be carried in 
51 satchel, to be suspende(l from tiie shoulder by a 
.strap, and if the trip is to be a long one. clean 
■clothing, or a valise tilleil with effects can be sent 
■on by express, to be called for at certain places. 
This may cost time and trouble, as well as money, 
for you ean never lie sure of linding what you 
■oxpeet, where and 
Avhen you expect 
it. I remember 
that four of us 
■chased four wreteh- 
<'d little parcels up 
:ind down iMount 
Washington, thence 
to C r a w f o r d s . 
thence to the Willey 
House and back to 
Orawfords one 
summer, and we 
vowed at that time 
that, come what 
might, we w^iuld 
never again submit 
to be separated from 
■our tooth brushes. 
It is absurd to cast 
off a burden that 
weighs only four 
l)ounds, and that is 
the '-heft" of my 
Tisual outtit. Some 
people insist on tak- 
ing changes of 
linen, slippers, med- 
icine, scissors, com- 
passes and goodness 
T^nows what all, and 
sifter three hours of 

it they frequently otTer to let liieinselves 
for their folly. 

If I had one piece of advice to offer to walk- 
ers, it would be to carry just as little as possible. 
When you have ri'ad your iio\cl. or otiier ])ook — 
in the evening, and on rainy days — give it away 
and buy another. When you have worn holes 
jn your stockings, do the same by them. Get 
neither books nor stockings that will cost you a 
heart-break to give up. If you collect minerals, 
botanical specimens, in.sects. iihotograjihs or relics, 
send them home by mail or express every few- 
days. You can get washing done at the hotels 




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and. if you are in a hurry for it, it will be done 
in a inirry— and charL'^e<l b)r vinilictively, 1 re- 
gi'ct to sav. 

Il is su|i|iosed tli;it you will sleep under a 
root. It is more roinaiilic In lie out in the 
iiushes, getting wet and cold and still, and cov- 
ered with bugs and spiders and staying awake 
troni sheer misery all niL'^ht, but a sjiringlied, 
or evi'U a haymow is jjetter for a steady slee|)- 
ing place. li( side, it you are a camper, you 
nuist weight yourself to the earth with etlVcis, 
and y(iu will want to go home. Any time is 
good tor walking, and 1 have found the loneli- 
ness of mountain trails in winter, delightful, but 
autunm is undoubtedly the best time. Jt is the 

season when you 
T1<*!^i5SiB can rely on the 
best weatlier, t he 
liest views, tiie best 
color, the lowest 
charges and the 
least annoyance. 

As to places to 
trami) througli, let 
your own tastes 
govern your selec- 
tion. Some want 
to be near the sea, 
some like the hills, 
some prefer the 
beaten path and 
others want to get 
away from it, some 
like a flat country, 
some like a historic 
region, some want 
a new and untried 
district, some want 
to add hunting and 
tishing. some want 
none of that, some 
want to go through 
a country with a 
sketch-book ami 
others with a niin- 
eralogical hammer 
and a botany box. 
The valleys of the Hudson. St. Lawrence, Connecticut 
and Delaware are delightful ; so are the Catskills 
and the mountains of North Carolina, though the 
roads are few and poor, so are the Green Moun- 
tains, and so. eminently, are the White Mountains, 
a region where everything has been done for the 
summer tourist that he could in reason ask to 
have done for him. yet they retain much of that 
wiidncss that is the greatest charm of mountains. 
Walking is the cheapest as well as the most in- 
vigorating form of locomotion. Begin easy. 
Doirt use yourself up. Remember that you are 
out to enjoy yourself, not to make a record. 



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yilEHE are somolliino- more tlian lialf a million 
bicvHcs in use in tiiis cmnlry, it is said. 
Tliat stands Imi- a ucnninc inlcicsl in ih,- vi'liiclc. 
Tlicy have come to stay, tins lime; whcivas tlic 
old velocipedes and un-ainiy ••ordinaries" have 
departed, as tliey 
were liound to do. 
tiironii'li nnsafe- 
ness and inellici- 
enev. Not only is 
the wheel the poor 
man's horse, but it 
is ix carriage for a 
good many i-idi 
men. too. Tiiere 
is an exhilaration 
about the use ol 
the machine, antl ' 
the sense tliar it is 
accomplished by 
its rider, that does 
not pertain to anv 
other form of loco- 
motion. It has " ^ 
the advantage over a horse 
that it costs nothing to 
keep, travels longer, does not 
lose its head and run away. 
is not subject to spells of 
illness, and the bills for 
repairs are not as 
large as tlie bills 
for shoeing and 
stabling. It seems 
as though the limit 
of perfection had 
been reached in 
the modern bicy- 
cle, and not until 
the motor that is 
to propel it by 
electricity or kero- 
sene comes into 
general use, will 
there be any mark- 
ed change in its 
mechanism, or 
speed. In fact, 
there is a doul)t if 

any motor will be popular, for. aside from the ex- 
pense and trouble of charging it, there will be a 
less ready response in physical exhilaration ilian 
the rider gets from his wheel when he propels it 
with his own legs. 






Nearly anybody ean learn lo ride a bicyclo. 
""<l there are not a lew ri.lers who have taken it 
ui. at the age of .seventy years, an.l more. H„t 
some have a gift f,„- it. w,,-,.,., is ai:ainst a 
'•"'••'■■ •" '''^isl r-i- up-hill work, ail.ei. that bur.le,, 

i>< ill ills favor when he is 
on the down frrade. Short 
wind, a feeble heart and 
weak legs are against a 
man. lil<ewis<-. llut, by 
taking a moderate speed 
and refraining from 'faiiey 
businei-s," a man can ride 
lor ten hours with much 
ess effort than walking 
the same time, and cover 
three times as many miles. 

Women become as 

' good riders as men, 
'though they are 
perhaps not equal 
lo liiein in long 
di.'+tance rides. 
Still, in the ■"cen- 
tury nuis" that 
iiave become com- 
mon of late— runs 
in companies, for a 
stretch of a iiun- 
dred miles in a day 
— women have 
held their own 
with men. When 
a man and his wife 
have eipnil skill the 
bicycle offers a tine 
agency for the en- 
joyment of an excur- 
sion, for while women 
seliiom walk they will 
ride. But dont use a 
tandem. Have some 
freedom of action. 

Assinning tliat a man 
is not inariied. however, 
or that his wife does 
not care for long nnis 
into the country, or that 
he is a mean creature who 
woidd raiiur send iier to a tive-dollar-a-day hotel, 
wliile he revels in the cheaper taverns of the 
rural districts, we will suppose that a vacation on 
the wheels— why do they not allow the machine 
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upon. Costume is to bo considered, and custom, 
not to say fashion, has allowed the introduclioii ol' 
one tliat is neat, serviceable and distinciive. To 
appear on the wjieel witlioul it is really In l)e 
more conspicuous than with it. in spile ol tiie I'acI 
tiiat il involves long stockings, knickerbockers, a 
jacket and cap. 
You may pretcr a - 
sweater to a jacket. 
The ai)pearancc> of 
a man on a wlieel in 
ordinary street 
dress, with his 
trousers in the gri]) 
of clasps, to keep 
them from catching 
in tiie chain, is not 
winning. A woman 
looks well in any- 
thing so. of course, 
she looks well in 
the divided skirt, 
which is the safest 
thing out for cy- 
cling. 

It may fairly be 
said that the bicycle is 
the only method of loco- 
motion, by personal effort, 
that incites one to extend 
the work and journe}'. 
There is comparatively sn 
little fatigue, and the 
ground is covered 
so rapidly, that 
there is a constant 
desire to extend the 
distance. Fifty to 
seventy miles a 
day. which would 
be hard work for 
a horse, is compara- 
tively easy for a 
souud and seasoned 
cyclist, and nothing 
can be more thor- 
oughly enjoyal)le 
and beneficial. 
Such trijis should 
be made in a com- 
pany of not more 
than two or three, 
for it seems impos- 
sible for more than 

that numlier to agree as to the s])eed. uk 
route, and the distance to be nni ; tliere is sure 
to be a "scorcher" as well as a ••laggard" in 
any large party. 

Don't go out for a long run. however, unless 
you have tried yourself, and your machine, and 
your companions, if possible, by a number of 



short runs wiihin ea.sy distance of home. And 
above all things, when you do go oil for a ,li,y 
or two. or more, put a strong curb on every 
desire to "scorch" or to do a ■cenlnry," or any 
otiicr fancy work. You will get Iluoiigli country 
village streets with less danger .if all kind.-, ili- 
_ will of churlish 

l)umpkins. niis- 

< hicvons dogs or 

< hiidren. A:c., if you 
are going a I u 
>-cvcn-milc gait in- 
stead (»f a mile a 
minute, with your 
head at right angiis 
w il h y<iur legs. 
Doiit torgcl that 
there is yet a lin- 
gering idea, among 
those wlio still drive 

horses, that 
bicycles are 
useless, umiat- 
ural and nuis- 
ances ; in fact 
there are many 
b ack woods- 
men and half- 
ci\ilized bu- 
colics who 
seem yet in 
doulit whether 
it is not thcii 
duly, as good 
( itizens. to run 
them down. 
The roads have 
)een used so 
long by horses 
and their driv- 
ers that they 
n t like to give 
1 their moti- 
)pol\'. 
A trip should 
made with a 
•iew to comfort 
id fresh air. 
ather than niile- 
ire. I)on"t ind- 
ite the foolish 
irgins and start 
out without your 
oil. as well as the 
little tools and etceteras that will insure repairs to 
your machine, as well ascater to your personal wants 
and desires. Let the party decide what is wanted f(U- 
each, and for the wants of the whole, ami then let 
the whole lot be divided up into equal bundles for 
each; while it may not be wise to take only one spare 
jiair of pants for the party, or one tooth brush, 




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it is certainly not necessary that each shoiikl 
carry a complete set of tools and repair kit : one 
set will do for all. Don't foi-ii-ct a cup. for v.hen 
you are perspiring at every jiore, at the rate of 
a quart aa hour, you will want a drink at every 
sig'ii of water ; anil a hit of eourt-plaster, and a 
thread and needle may ])e useful, and perhaps a 
small air-pillov/ to sit on after the tirst steady 
work of a day or so; tliere are many little things 
that j'ou had better think of before starting, than 
discover the want of after you have got out into 
the wildcrne.'-s. 

Take a chain and lock with you. and secure your 
wdieel when you stop. It will lie pleasanter if you 
wake up in a strange room, in the silent Avatches 
of the night, to know that your wheel is safe under 
your bed, or locked up, than to lay and wonder 
wluther some wretch has got away with it. 
Although the wheel insurance companies can hardly 
bring you liome from a trip on one of the wheels 
that they loan you, luitil yours is found, still thee 
must be a certain amount of comfort in the 
knowledge that there is somebody standing ready 
to make your loss good. 

The expenses of bicycle outings are entirely 
under control. On a train or boat the tourist 



pays so much a mile ; fifty miles on a train 
will cost at least one dollar, while on a bicycle 
the same distance will cost nothing but some pers- 
piration and perhaps a few stiffened muscles. A 
train is an uncomfortal)le place on which to enjoy 
a pocket lunch ; if on a cycle, you can lay off 
under a tree, by a babbling brook, or a ciystal 
spring, "far from the busy haunts of nu'U " and 
al)sorb refreshment for the sold and spirit, while 
satisfying the bodily wants. You are not likely 
to strike high-priced hotels. The little country inns 
will feed you for fifty cents a meal, usually 
good substantial meals, and the sr.me sum for 
lodgings. Go to bed as early as you can, but 
don't let the good quality of your bed tempt 
you to linger in it ; get up and away in the 
early hours. An early rise, a good cold douche 
and rubbing, even at the pump in the yard if 
you can do no better, some bread and milk, if 
too early for more sidjstantial things, and some 
crusts stowed in your pockets, for a nibble before 
dinner ; be sure that your wheel is all right, 
and then take the road ; such a start, by five 
o'clock, will fill j'ou with elasticity, give you 
the sweetest hours of the day for a run, and 
let you rest in the hottest and meanest. 



FIVE GOOD BICYCLE TRIPS. 



Tlie following routes are described from lu'tual experience, and are all over good rtiads, including some of the finest in the 
country. They are within easy distance of railroads, so that, in catie of misha]i, the rider may return. After getting some 
distance from New York, the various turns, at every fork and cross-roads, are not given. An occasional iiKiniry will enalde the 
rider to get along all right. 



On Long Island.— Starting from Brooklyn, take Eastern 
Parkway, alx^ut two miles, to East New York Avenue, turn to 
left, ahout half-a-mile, to Liberty Avenue, continue along Liberty 
Avenue until the end of the Kings County Elevated Kailroad is 
reached. A short turn to the left leads into Broadway, which 
is a straight road for about three miles, to Jamaica, wliere a 
turn to the right is made, into the Rockawai/ Turnpike; about 
two miles from Jamaica, turn to the left into Locust Avenue, 
which leads into the Merrick Road, where a turn to the right 
is made. The Jlerrick Road continues straight along for about 
ten miles from this turn to Freeport, passing through Spring- 
field, Valley Stream, Pearsalls (Lynbrook) and RockviUe Center. 
At Freeport turn to left to Hempstead, about five miles. The 
return trip may be shortened by taking the dii'ect road from 
llemiistead to Rockville Center, about seven miles. This trip is 
over the finest stretch of road on Long Island, from Jamaica to 
Freeport, and is level all the way. The scenery consists of well- 
kept farms and private estates, with quite a little wood-land, but 
the country being so flat there is little else to be seen. The 
good road is the great attraction, and if the rider wishes to go 
further than Freeport, the road continues good to Babylon, 
about thirteen miles beyond, passing through Merrick, Massa- 
pequa and Amityville. Brooklyn riders may prefer to take the 
Kings County Elevated Railroad (at any Station) in order to avoid 
the three mile stretch of block pavement on Liberty Avenue ; 
ten cents extra is charged for wheels. New Y'orkers who wish 
to avoid the Brooklyn part of the route can do so liy taking 
the College Point Ferry at 99th Street, East River, to College 
Point, thence to Flushing and Jamaica, about eight miles from 
College Point. 



Through the Orange Valley, from Newark to 

Plaintield. — Take railroad to Newark. In Newark, take Market 
Street and turn to right into Plane Street for about five 
blocks; then turn to left into Central Avenue, for about two- 
and-a-half miles ; then turn to right into South Grove Street, 
about two miles; then to the left into Park Avenue (East 
Orange) about one-and-a-half miles to Llewellyn Park; turn ta 
left here, to Orange, about one-half mile; continue straight 
along for about a mile, to South Orange; at Valley Hotel 
(South Orange) take road to the right, and a mile further v\\, 
at church on left side of road, turn to the left, cross railroad 
tracks, and at Griffiths drug store (a short distance after 
crossing the tracks) turn to the right. This road leads to 
Maplewood, where a turn to the right is made, until Millburit 
is reached. From Maplewood to Milltiurn is pai't of the cele- 
brated Irviugton-Millburn road. From Millburn ki'cp to the 
left, to Springfield, about two miles, then to the right, ami at 
first turn, to the left again into an almost straight stretch of 
about eight miles, to Scotch Plains. After turning to the left 
to enter this village, turn to the right again at first turn, into 
a straight stretch of road for five miles, to Plainfield. Leaving 
Plainfield by North Avenue, the rider passes through Fanioood 
to Westfield, a straight road of about four miles. At Westfield, 
cross railroad tracks, keeping to the right until R.R. station 
is passed, then to the left; then to right again at ne.xt turn, 
until Cranford is reached. Tliere is a stretch of about eight 
miles of road, without any turn worth mentioning, from Cran- 
ford to Elizithi III, jiassing through Roselle, and Kl Mora. 
When Elizabeth is reached, a turn to the left for about a. 
mile will jiiit tlio rider on a macadam road for about six. 



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miles, into Hruiid Stii'ut, Xiifdi-I:. \\ Inn Itroail Street is 
reaclie.l, turn to left, almut one mile, t<i MaiUet Street. The 
rotind trip envers alicmt t'oitv miles, and exiept I'm- a lew 
blocks in Newark and in Kli/.abeth (alio\it t\vo-and-a-lialf mlleM 
altogetlier) i.s on the finest roads in tlie eountry. No part of 
the route is hilly eui'U^h to hi' avoided — there's as mneh 
(lowu-liill as uji — and as the road outward follows the valley 
of the Orange Mountains, the scenery is very line. 

Over Staten Island into Jersey.— Take iniat at 
foot of Whitehall Street — no e.xtra charge for wliecds. 
At St. Ceorge take road to the left, climbing a shorl 
hill, then keep to th<' hit through TiiiiiplcitlSfille and 
l<l(ti)litiin to \:inderliilt .\veuue, C ti/ ton, n\mut two-and- 
oue-half mih's; turn to the right into A'anderbilt 
Avenni', and about oMe-anil-one-half miles further on, 
turn to the left into the straight road fur Ke.w Dor/i, 
about lour miles. At lUack Horse Inn, New Dorp (an 
<dd lainhuiuk I, take road to th(^ left, ami at next fork 
keep to the- bd't through the woods for about a mile, 
vhen a tine macadam road is reached, leading straight 
to Tutti'tu-iUe, about nine miles, jiassiug through AiDiiui- 
dale, HuijiU'iuit and I'l-htcuss Hay. After ri<liug aliuut 
lialf a mile thnuigh Totteiiville, turn to the right to 
the I'erth Amboy Ferry, about one-half mile. T.tke 
ferry to Pi'i-tli Amboy, fare ten ceiit.s, boats run every 
hour: continue up street leading from ferry into the 
straight road for Metuchai, abotit six uiiles. In 
Metucheu turn to the right into tlie straight ■ 
road for Hahivdy, about six miles, following the 
rer.nsylvania Railroad tracks all the way, and 
I)assing through Meiilo Park, Isclin and Coloniii. 
At Hahway cross railroad tracks to the left, ai 
about one-third of a milo further, turn to ri.^l 
.iito the road f(jr Elizalieth, crossing the Rahw:i\ 
River twice within the first mile. Abcuit one- 
half mile after crossing second bridge, keep to 
the right at fork leading to Crtuijord, and at 
Wlieatshiaf, one-and-one-half miles further on, 
keep to the right into £7i>afcrf/(, about two miles 
From Elizabeth to Newark see "Orange Yalk^ 
trip." This trip can be shortened six miles b'S 
taking the road from Pertli Amboy via ]Voo I '*f^t< 
hndr/r to Railway; that road is <if heavy ii 
(day, and is said to be good at times, but tl 
■writer's experience is otherwise. Better inqui 
before risking it. This trip is uniiiue in t 
matter of scenery, as at times the road folh 
the shore, aft'ording a view of the ui>per ai 
lower bays, and then goes inland amongst tl 
hills and woods, crossing a brook now and then 
catching a glimpse of the sea occasionally, wher 
road is on high ground. In the Jersey part o 
route, the fine resiliences and grounds along the 
are the chief attraction, it being a Hat coutit 
that sec'tion. 

Through the Ramapo Valley.— Take 

York, Lake Erie & AVestern Railroad to Erilev 
no charge for wheels, Init "release'' must lie si 
At Belleville take road south <if station, turning 
left through the village. After crossing bridge 
small stream, two-and-a-half miles further on, ti; 
right, (loss railroad tracks, turning to tlie left one 
mile beyond. Pass under Erii^ Raili'o.id liriil 
Pas.'faic Bridge Station, .about two miles, and c 
straight along thi-ough the town until Passaic Station is 
reache(l, just one mile from Passaic Bridge. Take road on the 
East side of Railroad Station, following the river (called Dundee 
Lake at thisjiointi fcu- three miles. Turn to left alter passing 
Cemetery, about one-aml-a-.iuarter miles, then to Pnteraon, right 
into Madison Street, for two blocks, then left into I'ark Avinxc to 
Market Street, continuing along until street ends, about one-and- 
a-half miles. AValk up hill to the right, leading into a small jiark 
surrounding the Passaic F(dts, which are well wtirtli a visit. 
Leaving the Falls, continue up the river on the same side, 



following the trojjev-car traiks, pns.Hihg iiiidi-r railroad bridge 
two miles fuither on; at m-xt fork kei-p to tin' riirlit, for nboiit 
two miles, mid alter crossiiij; canal, tiini to riLlit, passing 

through Liltle Palls ii< ,V/m/-ic, al I and-a-half iiiili-». At 

Singac turn to right at cross-ripuds, to Mniiiitainriiir, iiboiit 
two-aiid-a-hiilf miles. Cross caiuil and railriiail tracks and Iwtc 
and-a-half miles liirther on cioss another canal anci the ItaiuJipo 
Itiver immeclialcdy afterwards. Abccut <i|ii'-i|uarter mile after 
crccssing river, turn to the right into Pumiil'in Plains, ubictit 
two miles. Kee|i straight along for two-and-a-half inileH, tin ii 




turn to the right into Pomptan, crossing three Icriclges close 
together within the next iiiih'. and at next fork turn to the 
left. A half-mile further on turn to the right at next fork, 
jiassing alongside Pnmpton Lake; turn to the right ov.-r bridge, 
about a mile, and after crossiug brid,ge, take road to tlic> lid't for 
one-and-one-half miles, and at fork by the Church turn to left to 
Oakland, about one-half mile. There is :» straight road from 
this place to Darlinytons, following the Ramapo Kiver all the 
way, about six miles. Take road to the right at Darlingtiuis 



BULLINGER'S MONITOR GUIDE has time-tables of all Trains, Boats and Steamers ru-- 
New York — cai-. be consulted at Hotels, Restaurac-ts, Drug Stores, Etc. 



and to 



86 



THE PLEASURES OF CYCLING. 



to Ramseys, about two miles. Tlien to Allfudale, alnnit two 
miles. The road from Darliiistons to Allendale is ipiite tortu- 
ous, but is easily followed, being the best road. From Allen- 
dale to Ridgeivood, about two-and-a-half miles, is fairly straight, 
passing through Hohokus. Turn to the right at Ridgewood, 
taking the road through Uawthnrne to Paterson, about three 
miles. This trip may be shortened by keeping straight ahead 
at fork lat the Church) before reaching Oakland. Turn to the 
right at next fork, and about a mile further on turn to the 
left, passing alongside Franklin Lake. At cross roads, a mile 
or so beyond Franklin Lake, turn to the right into a road 
leading straiglit into Paterson, about seven miles. This trip is 
without doubt the finest, for scenery, that can be covered in a 
days trip from New York, f<illowing, as it does, the Passaic 
and Ramapo Rivers most of the way. The mountains on all 
sides vary from four hundred and fifty to over eight hundred feet 
in height, but the road, being in the valley, is level all through. 

To Port Jervis and the Delaware Water 

Gap, aliout a three days trip. — Take "Through the Ramapo 
Valley" I'oute, as described on preceding page, as far as Darling- 
tons, but continue straight ahead instead of taking road to the 



right, until SiitTern is reached, about six miles. From Sufleru 
take road following Erie R.R. tracks ion right side> leading 
through Ramajx) iuul Sterlington to ►S7oa<s6i(r(/, about five miles. 
From Sloatsburg take road through Turedo, Soutli/ields and 
Arden to Turners, about lifteen miles; then through Monroe, 
Oxford, Greycourt, Chester and Goshen, following Erie R.R. 
tracks most of the way, and crossing them occasionally, to 
Middletown via PldlUpshurg and ilechanicstown. Middetown is 
about twenty-three miles from Turners. From Middletown, via 
Mount Hope and Otisville, then over Shawangunk Mountains 
to Guymards, Huguenot and Port Jerris, about twenty miles 
from Middletown. Cross bridge at Port Jervis, keeping road 
to left to Milford, seven miles ; ftdlowing the river road to 
Diiigmans Ferry, ten miles from Milford; then to Delaware, 
Egypt .W(7?6- and Bus/itiV/, ten miles from Dingmans. At Bush- 
kill, the fine stretch which has extended all the way from Port 
Jervis ends, and from here into Delaware Water Gap, via 
Shawnee and Experiment Mills, is fair riding only, a distance 
of six miles. The writer took train here for New York. Train 
can betaken as far as Pompton, and the run made from Pompton 
to New York as described in the outward part of trip 
" Through the Ramapo A'allev." 



CHARGES FOR BICYCLES ON STEAMBOATS AND RAILROADS. 



The Transportation of Cycles by Railroads and Steamboats is becoming a very serious question to the lines; the machines 
take up so much room (they cannot be piled iip like trunksi and they cannot be "fired" around in the style supposed to be 
indulged in by the average Baggage "Smasher." Some lines continue to carry them free: the following are the lines that have 
at this time decided to make a charge, which there is little doubt all lines will ultimately do. 

The majority of the Raih-oads starting at New York City carry Cycles without charge, many of them, however, requiring a 
signed "release." The New York Central & Hudson River; the New York, New Haven & Hartford and the New York & Putnam 
Roads make a charge equivalent to the regular charge made for one hundred pounds of " Excess Baggage." 



The following is a list of the Steamboats and Lines that now make a charge: 



Albany Day Line .50 cents. 

Ben Franlvlin Line... 25 cents. 

Bridgeport Line 25 cents. 

Citizens Line 50 cents. 

College Point Ferry.. 10 cents. 

Fall River Line 50 cents. 

Glenville 25 cents. 



Huntington 25 cents. 

Idlewild 25 cents. 

Keyport Boat 15 cents. 

Kingston Line 50 cents. 

Maid of Kent 25 cents. 

Mary Powell 25 or 50 cents. 



Meta 25 cents. 

New Brunswick 25 cents. 

New Haven Lines 25 cents. 

New London Line (io cents. 

Newport Line 50 cents. 

Northport 25 cents. 



Norwalk Line 25 cents. 

Norwich Line (15 cents. 

Peoples Line 40 cents. 

Port Chester 25 cents. 

Providence Line (ill cents. 

Red Bank Boats 25 cents. 

Stoniugton Line iO cents. 



Bullinger's Monitor Guide \A/ill answer 
many questions, about — Hotels — Postage — 
Flats — Cemeteries ■ — Banks — ■ Churches — 
Tides — Clubs — Hospitals —Theatres— Office 
Buildings — Storage Warehouses. 

A.lso a general assortment of useful and 
ornamental facts. 



7S Fulton street, New York. 



87 
Established, 1869. 



Bullinger's 

Monitor 

Guide 

is as necessary as 

Pen and Ink 

or as 

Light and Air. 

No business, 

and few Homes, 

ca n be 

successfully 

operated 

without 

It. 




It 

solves 
so many 
puzzling 
questions for 
clerks and 
business-men, 
of all degrees, 
that the 
"working force 
is always 
■well balanced ; 
insuring that 
calmness and. 
serenity so- 
essential to 
success. 



7§ Fulton Street, New York. 



88 



FRESH AIR AND EXERCISE. 




A S a matter of mere invigoration, and a wise 
' *^ and judicious iuvestuient in the direction of 
increase of brain power and ability to do more 
work, would it not pay employers to insist that 
their clerks should take more out -door exercise"? 
Indeed, is there not a growing impression that it 
would be wise for employers to con 
tribute time 
occasionallv 
to that pur- 
pose ? 

As for the 
clerks, and in 
fact all busi- 
jiess men, if 
they had any 
care for their 
own best wel- 
fare — th e 
liealth and 
strength that 
must underlie 
all successes— 
they would 
take advantage of every opportuutiy "' ^ -^ t, 

for opi-n-air exercises ; hundreds of opportunities 
that they now neglect, scorn perhaps. It is the 
great failing of the times, as uoceasintrly told by 
all phj-sicists. that we are degenerating into a 
mere aggregation of nerves, 
with atrophied muscles and 7- 
circulatory org ins ; always 
tired, always fretful, always 
wakeful, the 'misery" feel- 
ing alwavs at hind. Open- 
air exercise of from four to 
six miles a day, would un- 
failingly send the blood pul- 
sating to the extremities and 
back, cleansing out the cin- 
ders and ashes and effete 
matter deposited by the slug- 
gish, and more sluggish. 
movement of the life flood 
during the bodily inaction of 
the business hours. But !^— -" 
clerks and working people 
will not do that ; they prefer 
with fish-like patience to 
crowd the cars of all kinds, 

in a mad desire to reach their homes or their 
business with the least possible physical exertion. 
And the wonder grows, when one considers that 
such slow-suicidal practices prevail so univer?ally. 



,^^ 




If but a few could be persuaded to try natures 
own. and only, restorative for tired and jaded 
nerves and brains, the custom would certainly 
spread and make more and more friends. What is 
the secret of the last and most exciting fad — the 
bicycle — but that the legs are used as agitators or 
pumps to set the blood in motion, produc- 

► in£r an exhila- 

- \ ration not oth- 

' ' ■' erwise attain- 

able ; persons 
who would 
scorn to walk 
a mile or two, 
will bow their 
backs, and use 
their heads as 
battering rams, 
in a wild desire 
to do a "cen- 
tury" in a day. 
It is, however, 
dull work for 
tlie uu( bservmg mind, tramping up and 
— down through the bustling, hustling 

throngs of our crowded city streets, and there are 
times when the atmosphere seems strangely unlike 
the sweet air of heaven. Then it is that we all 
long to get close to nature, 

"With the upward rise, 
And with the vastness grow. '' 

That such longings are not 
It alized more frequently, is 
chiefly because the opportu- 
nities to do so are not familiar. 
Indeed the public has no 
realizing sense of the in- 
iucements offered to them by 
11 transportation lines ; we 
i^ave a habit of growling at 
them, whereas we would be 
better employed and wiser, 
too, if we would more fre- 
quently use the advantages 
:hat they offer. ' 

And thousands of people 
forget, or do not know, that 
" here is a vast deal worth see- 
ing and enjoying in the space 
of a few miles from Xew York, 
with attractions for all tastes, dispositions and re- 
sources. There are, moreover, fag ends and uncon- 
sidered trifles of time that hang upon many hands, 
which could be put to better account in acquiring a 



A Shipping Clerk wrthout BULLINGER'S GUIDES is a good deal like a 
SteEm Engine w/thout a Boilsr. 



89 



FRESH AIR AXD i:xF.Rci.sr:. 



knowledge of these attrnotiDiis, tliiiii in the coinindu 
and lamentable town practice of idlinj;' on t lie steps 
of boai'ding houses or loitering disconsolately in tiie 
streets. Naturo; is but a step from the city, and she 
invites all to take pleasure and profit in her society. 
Think for a moment of u ride of forty-si.v mik's, 
occupying four hours, for ten cents, and all in 
mid air. Tliat is tiie portion offered to us by 
the Elevated railroads of New York — from One 
Hundred and Seventy-seventh Street and Third 
Avenue, to South Ferry, thence to One Tlundrtd 
and Fiftylifth Street and Eighth Avenm — twenly- 
tliree miles — two iiours — for five cents; return 
over same route, for same fare. The cheapest and 
most interesting four-hour ride in the world. 



Then consider Staten Island. St. George is five 
miles, by boat, across the most beautiful l>ay in 
the world, tiience to Arlington or to South IJeach, 
live miles mure, anil all for ten cents — ten miles — 
forty live minutes — for ten cents. It is marvelous. 

Wliat oppniiunities for fresh air, and "moving 
Itietures by Hood and tide," f)n the various ferries 
thai eovei' all parts of the bay and rivers; and 
tiie city cal)le and trolley car lim-s, for five cents, 
will take you to bits of woods and unpolluted air 
that you little dream of. 

The subject grows as one thinks of it. An 
attt'nipt is made in the following jjages to suggest 
])ossibilities for short and reasonable outings, near 
the city, that will s\ut all tastes and purses. 



LONG SAILS ON FERRIES. 



'T'HE fares, miles and time given at each are 
understood that the hours on which the 
proiierly be given here, l)ut they can always 
Index of Bullingers Monitor Guide : 

Staten Island, from 
Whitehall Street, ten 
miles, fare twenty 
cents, time fifty min- 
utes. This fare also 
includes a ride on 
the Staten Island 
Railroad, of al)out 
twenty minutes more, w, . 
along the shores of ■ 
New York Harbor. \ 

Bav Ridge, from White- ^.- 

hall Street, ten miles. "^" 

fare twenty cents, - -c-_ 

time forty minutes. 

Thirty-ninth Street. Brooklyn, from Whiteh 
Street, eight miles, 
fare ten cents, time 
forty minutes. 

Long Island City, from 
James Slip, ten miles, 
fare twelve cents, f^- 
time fifty minutes. 

College Point, from East 
Ninety-ninth Street, 
ten miles, fare twenty 
cents, time eighty 
minutes See article, 
"Through HellGate." 



for the round tiip. out and back. It will be readily 

trips are made (being subject to change) cannot 

be found by reference to "Ferries" iu the General 



Brooklyn Annex, from 

Fulton Street, Brook- 
Ij'ii, eight miles, fare 
fifteen cents, time 
thirty-five minutes. 



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Weehawken, from Frank- 
lin Street, eight 
miles, fare ten cents, 
tune forty minutes. 

Foit Lee. from AVest 
Thirteenth Street, 
twenty miles, fare 
twenty-five cents, 
time ninetv nunutes. 



dl Jersey City, from West Twenty-third Street, seven 
•^>;':~:-— _ miles, fare six cents. 

time forty minutes : 
a line s;nl on the 
Hudson. 

Fort Lee. from One 
Ilmulred and Tiiir- 
tieth Street, six 
miles, fare twenty 
cents, time thirty 
minutes. Can return 
to New York by line 
(see above) to West 
Thirteenth Street, 
fare fifteen cents. 




You wul aiways get a pleasant answer from BULLINGER'S MONITOR GUIDE, It con' 

amouut of useful and ornannental facts. 



90 



OUTINGS BY STREET RAILWAYS. 




/^UR street railway systems offer the following 
^^^ of a regular fare : 

Riverside Drive and Park, extending 
along the bank of the Hudson River, about two 
and a-half miles, between Seventy-second Street 
and One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Street. The 
park is of irregular width ; bounded on the 
east side by Riverside Drive, 
one of the grand boulevards 
laid out by the city authorities, 
the east side of Avhich is lined 
by sumptuous private residences. 
The park lies west of the drive, 
extending to the river, covering 
the side of the hill and blull's, 
in some places one hundred and 
fifty feet high. Tiie park is 
under the supervision of the 
j\Iunicipal Park Department and 
is ornamented with flower-beds 
in places, and is largely covered 
with the original growth of for- 
est trees. There are parts of the 
park lying under the bluffs, that 
are as quiet and secluded as 
similar woods in Orange County. 
At the north end of the park, 
the view from the top of the 
bluffs embraces a section of the Hudson River, 
quite as large, and quite as tine, as many of the 
views that may be obtained from the famed 
Hudson River Highlands. The drive lies about 
five blocks west of the west-side elevated rail- 
road ; about four blocks west of the Columbus 
Avenue Line; the Third 
Avenue Cable Line 
reaches the park by its 
Fort Lee Ferry Branch. 

High Bridge. — 
This grand Croton 
Water Aqueduct Bridge 
was supposed, at the 
time it was erected, to 
be one of the seven 
wonders of the world, 
and is, even now, well 
worth a visit. It com- 
mands an extensive 
view of the Harlem 
River, and at its west- 
ern terminus there is a 
small public park, surrounding the reservoir. This 
is probably the pleasantest point at which to secure 
row-boats for a trip on the Harlem River. The west 
side elevated railroad in connection with the New 
York & Putnam Railroad runs direct to the 



opportunities for a breath of fresh air at the price 

bridge, fare ten cents. The Amsterdam Avenue 
Branch of the Tiiird Avenue Cable System runs 
to High Bridge Park ; fare five cents. 

\A/ashington Bridge, one of the most 
magnificent bridges in the w^orld, commanding an 
extensive view of the Harlem 
River, and with beautiful ram- 
bles at each terminus. Reached 
by the Amsterdam Avenue 
Branch of the Third Avenue 
Cable Sj'stem ; fare five cents. 
Fort George, a high and 
pretty wooded bluff at One 
Hundred and Ninetieth Street 
and Amsterdam Avenue, over- 
looking the Harlem River and 
Inwood, as far as Spuyten 
Duyvil. Four blocks from the 
terminus of the Amsterdam 
Avenue Branch of the Third 
Avenue Cable System ; fare five 
cents. 

Crotona Park, one of the 
/' nuuiicipal public parks, lying on 

the east side of Third Avenue, 
- ■ between One Hundred and Sev- 

entieth Street and One Hundred and Seventy -eighth 
Street. It covers one hundred and thirty-five acres, 
and is entirely in a natural state, thickly wooded and 
without a single sign "keep off the grass." The 
suburban branch of the east-side elevated rail- 
roads runs directly to the park at Wendover 

Avenue Station ; fare 
five cents. 

The Brooklyn 
Street Railway 
Lines running tx), or 
1 ransf erring to other 
lines for Fort Hamil- 
ton, Bensonhurst, Bath 
Beach, Flatlands and 
y.Tamaica, all afford an 
/ opportunity for an out- 
ing in the w^oods, or on 
the shore, for eight to 
ten cents. 

Hoboken Street 
Cars, over the hill, 
lead to m a n y very 
pretty walks in the neighborhood of Palisade 
Avenue, Hudson Heights, &c., and the Wee- 
hawken Street Cars, run back in the country 
with pleasant roads, woods, &c., towards Gutten- 
burg, with fine views from the top of the bluffs 
overlooking the Hudson and New York Cily. 




About time-table information— BULLINGER S MONITOR GUIDE will tell you more than the average 

Agent, ticket or otherwise. 



91 



CONEY ISLAND. ROCKAWA V, ETC. 

"THIS work -ivcs no particuhns ahoul Loii.u- Braiicli, dnu-y Isliuul, (ficii I'.laii.l, IfocUawav. South 
Bcacli, Norlh Hcacb. Bowery Bcacli, Fort Wciidcl, I'lmcr I'ark atnl mkIi places. Tlievall liave 
a eharacter distinelly their own and are so wiildy advertised that it is iiinieeessarv "to ineiudf 
tUeni in a work hke tliis. 

Tiiere are ]iossi1>ilities of a line and healthy <aitin- at sonic of them, especially at ('(jiiev 
Island, in leavin,-- the crowded -'Boweries" and ■'West Knds" and such places, and wandcrinj,' 
oil' into the natnral country tliat is l)eyon<l. At Coney Island a very ph^a.sant new tiip lias Itcen 
oiHiied by the '-Sea Beach Route." which has i)ut a hoat on between Nortons Point— now called 
"Sea Gate"— and Hay Ridge, sriving an opportunity lor a sail from New York to P,ay Ridge, 
thence by rail to the Island, thence liy walk along the beach to Nortons Point, thence "by boat 
past Fort llainillon to Bay Ridge, thence to New York ; fare for trip, forty c<Mds. 



SATURDAY AFTERNOONS. 

"VA/HAT shall we do with our halt holitlay ? A number of the illustrated articles herein, and 
many of the suggested trips, will give delightful opporl uinlies for a hoat or rail ride, 
starting by one or two o'clock, having a walk of two or three houis, and rclurninii' l)y seven to 
nine o'clock. 

Time-tables of the \arious lines must l)e consulted, of course, in making the choice of triii. 

There are a few special Saturday afternoon trips by boats that are very tine; some to leturii 
hy same l)oat, others to return by another boat oi' by railroad. 

For Sea Cliff, Etc.— The Idlewild leaves Peek Hiqlilaiid Beach boats leave Jane Street at 



Slip at o.dO i).ni.; arrives in New York, on 
return, at il.OO \).m.; fare for trip, .")() cents. 

For West Point. — The Mary Powell leaves 
Desbrosses Street at 1.45 p.m., due at West 
Point at 4.8U p.m.; return by West Shore 
Railroad at about 6.00 p.m.; fare for trip, 
fl.OO. ; or return by Ramsdell Line Steamer, 
leaving at T.-lo p.m. due in New York about 
uudnight; fare for trip, $1.00. 

For Newburg. — The Kingston Line leaves West 
Tenth Street at 1.00 p.m., due at Newburg 
at 4.80 p.m.; fare, 50 cents; return by 
Ramsdells Line at 7.00 p.m., due in New 
York about midnight, fare, 50 cents; total, $1. 
Or return by West Shore Railroad as late 
as 8.00 p.m.. fare. $1.16; total, $1.66. 

Red Bank boats leave Franklin Street at ;').00 
p.m., a three hours sail for 40 cents; return 
from Red Bank l)y railroad until a late hour; 
fare, $1.00; total. $1.40. 

Atlantic Highlands l)oats leave Rector Street 
at about 1.00 and 8.45 p.m.; time one and 
one quarter hours, and return as late as about 
6.00 p.m.; fare for roiuid trip, $1.00. 



8.00 p.m.. time one and three-(inarter hours; 
return by same line; single fare, 35 cents; 
excursion fare, 50 cents; or return by Central 
Railroad of New Jersey, either via "all rail" 
or via Atlantic Highlands and boat, until 
about 5.80 p.m., fare to New York by eitliei 
way, $1.00. 

Tarry tONA^n boat leaves West Tenth Street at 
2.80 p.m.; time, two hours; fare. 25 cents; 
return by New York Central Railroad as late 
as about 10.00 i).m. ; fare, II cents; total fare, 
(»•.» cents. 

Keyport boat leaves Bloomtield Street about 
8.00 l).m.; time, two hours; fare. 80 cents; 
return by railroad as late as al)out 6.80 i>.m.; 
fare. 70 cents, total, $1.00 

Perth Amboyboat leaves Pier (J. Xorth Hiver. 
about 8.00 i).m.; time, two and adialf hours; 
fai"e. 25 cents; return by railroail as late as 
8.00 p.m.; fare, 40 cents; total, 65 cents. 

For Newburg. — The Mary Powell leaves Des- 
bros.ses Street at 1.45 i).m.. due at Newburg 
at 5.15 p.m.; retiu-n by Ramsdeils Line at 
7.00 ]),m., due in New York about midnight; 
fare lor trip, $1.'35. 



SUNDAY OU IIXGS. 

"THERE arc but few Sunday trips, by steamboats, that are absolutely clean in every respect. 
^ The best are those by lines that run every day of the week, the worst are those that are run foi" 
Sunday business only. The steamboat tables in Bullixgeu's Monitor Gcidk show all boats that 
are runiu'ng, with their days, hours, &c. 

Very many of the Outings suggested and described in these pages can be made on Sundays, 
also, but the railroads do not run as many trains on that day. and there is a possibility that the 
company, on the return trip to the city, may Ite larger and not as pleasant or as desirable, as on 
a v^-eek day evening. 



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STATEN ISLAND! i STATEN ISLAND! 



THE GREATE ST OF ALL SUMMER RESORTS. 

Swept by Ocean Breezes and Pronounced by all the Coolest and Most Attractive Resort near New York. 

Healthriil and Delislitriil, Extiui^ite Aiews, Beniitiriil Cloud Effect"*. Splendid Hotels, Desirable Cottnse Sites, 
Excellent Roads, Superior Educational Facilities, Handsome C'liurclies, Substantial Public Buildings, 

every IVatural Attraction, all Modern Conveniences. 

Only 20 Cents Excursion from tlif foot of A\'liitehall Street, by ttie Superbly Equipped Staten Island Rapid 
Transit, the Cheapest and Best Excursion Route leavin;; the City. 

Cool and EnchantinK Sail donn tl.e Picturesque Harbor, passins all Points of Interest and Connecting with 

Railroad traversing a Beautiful and Fascinating Country. 



The People's Playground-STATEN ISLAN D-The Family Man's Refuge. 

As a place of residoiite Staten I.shiml stands aloni.', acce.ssible t'loni all pciiuts ami in ckise iiroxiniity to all channels nf 
travel. The only convenient resort near New York that can boast of possessing the combined allurements of an interior 
district with those of the seasliore. Cheap rents, cheap fares. Only 20 cents excnrsion. Commutation at low rates. 
Tinest ferry house in New York. Largest and handsomest ferry beats in the harbor. New cars, new stations, quick transit. 
Boats every 20 minutes from the fn(.t (.1' Whitehall Street, eonneetini;- with trains for all joints on Staten Isl.iiid. 

The Wage-Earners' Paradlse-STATEN ISLAND-The Married Man's Friend. 



IMPROVEMENTS— In contemplation: New ferry house at St. Geor(;e. Double tracking Perth Amboy Division. 
Extension of Perth Amboy Division to waters edge at Tottenville. New depot at Tottenville. 

FRANK S. CANNON, General Manager. R. W. POLLOCK, Ceneral Traffic Agent. 

Foot of Whitehall Street, New York. 



iiw mm I mm imkgi sf i4mbqm mmmm 



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A Delightful Sail through the Narrows anil Lower New York Bay can be had by the Elegant steamers 

MARY PATTEN, PLEASURE BAY and ELBERON, 

Through the Shrewsbury River, for Highland Beach, Seabright, Pleasure Bay, 
BRANCHPORT and LONG BRANCH. 

Good Crabbing, Fishing, Boating. Rhode Island Clambakes, &c., can be obtained and Bathing in 

either Still Water or Surf Shaded Picnic Grounds in Sight of the Ocean. 

The best route for Horses and Carriages to Long Branch. Asbury Park, Ocean Grove, &c. 

Excursion Fare (Week-days and Sundays), 50 Cents lOr 6 Hours Sail. 

Transfer via Railway to Asbury Park and Return— ONE DOLLAR. 

ieaving New York, foot of Jane Street, as per timetable shown in table of "Steamboats for Places not on 

Hudson River," in Bullinger's Monitor Guid-. 

New York & Long Branch Transfer Co., will Check Baggage from Residence to 
destination. 

HOTEL - GASTLETON, 

St. George, New Brighton, Staten Island. 

^=^ OPEN ALL THE VFAP 

Five Minutes from Ferry. Hotel Stage in Waiting. 

^ Magniflce7it location, twenty-five minutes from Whitehall Street; Boats every fifteen 
■.minutes. Cuisine une.vcelled. Reasonable rates. All modern improvements; Elevators; 
.Electric lights. Country air. New York comforts. 

HOP EVERY SATURDAY EVENING. RUN DOWN AND SEE IT. 

For particulars and further information, address 

GEORGE MURRAY, Proprietor. 



9S 



THR "BEAUTIFUL ISLE OF THE SEA." 



TWENTY CENTS. 



jJISTORY tells us that as oarly as the year 
KiO:) Ihc Dutch •■ settled " in Stateii Island. 
AVhy the hutch should always settle, while other 
people wvvr busy 
movinii- about, 
in vent inn' and 
disco V e r i n f;; 
thin<>-s, liistorians 
have not explain- 
ed, but the In- 
dians appear to 
have stirred them 
up a little, about 
16-40. Whether 
these earl 3^ dis- 
sensions caused 
the erection of a 
suitable landinii' 
place to be in- 
detinately post- 
poned, it is hard 
to say, but the 
truth remains that the 
same antediluvian struct- 
ure which the Hollanders 
probably found when 
they got there, remains 
to greet the traveller as 
he alights to-day. 
Viewed as a relic 
of antiquity it 
should be ven- 
erated and pre- 
served, and as 
such is well 
worth a visit. 

If y o u h a v c 
never been to 
Stateu Island, 
and there are 
those who have 
not, hurry down 
to the foot of 
Whitehall Street 
next Saturday 
afternoon, pay 
your modest ten cents 
and step on board the 
boat. It takes you five 
miles across the baj', in 
twenty minutes — passes 
so close to the Goddess 
of Liberty that you can 
see the beads of perspira- 
tion on her massive 
lirow as she stands a 
day in the l^lazing sun 
rubs up against a light 



lioMse that 

von-Kull, 

movement 




guides the manner to the ancient Kill- 
ind huids you at Si. George, where a 
is on foot toestablisli a "Washington* 
lleadrpiarlers." You 
ia\e little time to in- 
^piM-t t lie ' •relic of 
aiiti(piity " for a train 
\\aits on eitlier hand 
lo carry yon, fri'e of 
further charge, to the 
north or soiitli as your 
fancy dictates. Take 
the train on yoiu- right, 
loliowing the shore of 
Kill " for a few 
miles, and leave 
the cars at Port 
If i e h m o n d . 
^ Don't linger 
■ here about the 
I history of the 
I place or the 
I J) ric e of its 
b u i id i ng lots 
(the whole island 
is covered with 
such items of 
interest) but 
take any of tiie 
half-dozen mads 
running toward 
the center of the 
island, or keep 
along the line of 
horse-ear. and bring 
after a halfhoin-s 
c, at C'astleton Cor- 
It is a little up 
but that heightens 
the jdeasure of 
(U'scending o n 
the other side. 
From here a 
lane (they call 
it a road) leads 
t h rou gh the 
woods, and it 
is well to follow 
it, for it takes 
you to nature 
in her loveliest 
form. Every 
step is a jileas- 
ure and withal 
a pain, for you 
crush some tiny 
llower or fern 
^v i t h every 



94 



THE " BEAUTIFUL ISLE OF THE SEA." 



foot-print. Little by paths — lovely lovers walks 
they seem tt) be^branch olf to right and left 
like rivers on a schoolboy's map. Wander at 
will through this happy valley, for you come, 
all too soon, into the village of Concord. Enquire 
the way to Silver Lake, and smile your sweetest 
smile (at the village inn) as the buxon landlady 
directs you to a road that points to the sky. 
Hire some one to pash you up it, or climb it 
if need be, but get to the top, and, as you 
reach the summit turn to j-our right through an 
opening in the fence ; cross the field in front of 
you and gaze upon a scene of pure delight. 
Miles away to the west are the Jersey hills ; the 
Kill Von Kull winds like a bright serpent through 
the lower lands ; the bay, far off to your right, 
dotted with ships of many nations, and below 
you, half hidden in its forest home, is Silver 
Lake. Descend through the "God's acre" which 
covers the slope at your feet, and reach the 
Richmond Turnpike, and in a few moments you 
are standing on the shores of the lake. Here 
you can fish, or try to. You can hire a boat 
and gather more lillies than you'll ever take 
home : or wander in the woods collecting ferns 
that would keep a botanist busy for the rest of 
his life ; and when you are tired, and the shadows 
lengthen, you can walk down hill to Tompkius- 
ville in twenty minutes, pay another ten cents 
for your ticket home, and reach it as the signal 
gun proclaims the sim has set. This trip is but 
one of a dozen or more which may be made 
through this delightfully quaint, ocean girt island. 

One can leave the train at West Brighton, 
take the first road on the left, and in less than 
fifteen minutes will have forgotten the existence 
of New York. A chain of delightful little lakes, 
fed by tiny rivulets and iniseen springs, and 
crossed here and there by crumbling old bridges, 
is seen from the road as you look to the right. 
An old mill, with its abandoned water-wheel, adds 
romance to the picture. You can follow the road 
through Concord and on into Clifton or Staple- 
ton, and return home from there. 

You can take the boat to St. George, then 
climb the hill to the right, and walk along the 
famous Brighton Terrace for five or six miles. 
A splendid road, shady and cool, following the 
Kill Von Kull for its entire length, passing 
through six or eight villages, from any of which 
a train may be taken home. 



You can take the train for Arrochar, have a 
swim at South Beach, and walk back over the 
hill to Clifton and on to St. George, or follow 
the shore round to Fort Wadsworth and spend 
an hour or more among the fortifications, or 
watching the ever varying panorama of the lower 
harbor. 

Either of the above possibilities may be had 
for a total outlay of twenty cents, from New 
York and return. The cheapest price, for an 
outing of such a varied and satisfactory nature, 
in the whole world. 

Or you may take the train to New Dorp, and 
walk to the historic old county seat of Richmond. 
Then wander on throvigh the country, at will, 
reaching, after a walk of about four miles, 
the famous Richmond Turnpike, once the old 
coaching road to Philadelphia, where wigged and 
powdered and stately dames Avere, no doubt, 
occasionally " held up " by some Dick Turpin, 
and relieved of their superfluous cash with as 
little delay and inconvenience as the gravity of the 
operation would Avarrant. From the Turnpike to 
the north shore is about two miles, making a 
tramp of six miles, and entailing an entire out- 
lay of thirty -five cents, from New York and 
return. 

The writer, with two friends, left New York 
one Sunday at noon, walked from St. George to 
South Beach, and after a swim, started off on a 
walk to nowhere. We kept the railroad in sight 
for quite a while, lost it occasionally and tum- 
bled over it unexpectedly at various points ; 
followed the road where it chanced to take us, 
and arrived about nine o'clock at Tottenville. 
We put up for the night at a quiet little hotel, 
and the next day, being a holiday, we walked 
back. Not, however, by the same road, but 
making our way o'er hill and dale — through 
fields and forests ; straight as the crow flies — 
till we reached St. George. A tramp of about 
thirty-five miles, and we saw more, did more, 
laughed more, and enjoyed it more than any 
tramp we ever had, and all we paid for trans- 
portation was twenty cents. 

As an object lesson in evolution, and of the 
"Natural Increment" that Mr. Henry George so 
persuasively discusses, it may be noted tliat in 
1670 the aboriginees traded the whole island to 
the white man, for goods, at the value of about 
one-tenth of a cent for each acre. 



TARRYTOWN AND ARDSLF:Y. 
KIGHTY CENTS. 

Take New York & Putnam Railroad to Tarry- 
town ; excursion fare eighty cents. Walk back 
through Elmsford, Worthington and Woodlands, 
quaint and picturesque little villages, nestling in the 
valley of the Nepperhan, to Ardsley, a popular 
suburban resort; a walk of about seven miles. Take 
train on same railroad at Ardsley for New York. 



FA1RLA^A'N AND MAYWOOD. 
NINETY CENTS. 

Take New York, Lake Erie & Western Rail- 
road to Fairlawn ; fare fifty -five cents. Walk 
through the village of Areola to May wood, about 
three and one-half miles of farming and fruit 
growing land and finely wooded country. Take 
New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad to 
New York ; fare thirty cents. 



A SAND-HOUND COAST 



95 



"THIS ferryboat 
lias an upper 
caliin fiDiii wiiicli 
you can see, as you 
pass by, one of the 
loveliest little is- 
lands in existence, 
albeit it is occu- 
pied by (lie dogs 
of wai-, and one of 
the oldest " cas- 
tles " in the coun- 
try — once a "fort" 
but now sonie- 
tliiniT less tlian a *■ ' 
cardboard house, for a 
modern thousand-poun 
cannon ball. 

The boat starts from 
foot of Whitehall 
street every half- 
hour for Thirty- 
u i n t li street, 
Brooklyn, fare five 
cents. Occasional- 
ly she passes 
through Butter- 
milk Channel, east 
of Governor's Is- 
land, l)ut by either 
route you pass in 
the twenty -five 
minutes sail, the 
great Atlantic 
Basin, lying- up place, 
hospital, as it were, for 
a queer assortment of 
water craft that would 
be difficult to match any 
where. 

Thirty-ninth 
street, Brooklyn, 
is the terminus of 
several trolley 
Hues. Take the 
Second Avenue 
line. It passes 
through a series of 
those queer erupt- 
ive conditions, pe- 
culiar to every 
section that has 
just come under 
the manipulation 
of laud companies 



TWKNTY Ci:XTS. 




and boomers. Leave 
the car at TliirtccMth 
avenue, lleic may be 
found sciine nf the 
primitivene.ss (,r Hie 
original (luieludi — a 
Mice shady lake will 
invite yon to disiiose 
your lu iicli on lt.s 
'•anks. Hence 
passing through 
the environs of 
IJalii Heaeli. Ben- 
son liurs I and 
South lU'iison- 
liursl towards 
rimer Park, a 
noted picnic 
ground, about 
torty-five minutes 
will bring you to 
the shore of 
Graveseiid Bay. 
Turning to the 
right along the main 
road, with lovely views 
of the beach and bay, 
about thirty minutes 
sauntering will l)ring 
youtoBathBeacii, 
" massing ma ny 
! places where the 
lapping waters 
will invite you to 
rest and dream of 
siren strains, that 
maids and mer- 
maids love to sing. 
Across the com- 
inon at Bath 
iJeacli. turn to the 
eft and along the 
^— lieach, about forty- 
five minutes will 
bring you to Fort 
Hamilton, another 
kennel of war dogs, 
with implements of 
destruction, however, 
much more "up to 
date " than those of 
the "castle" you 
pa.ssed a few hours 
ago. The Fort and 
e (( u i p m e n t will 



Express and Freight Shipping Directi 



ons for 125,000 places will be found in BULLINGER'S GUIDES, 
What a help for shippers. 



96 



A SAND-BOUXD COAST. 



amply repay an examination. The aforesaid 
"dogs" are awfully nice; as gentle as doves and 
as willing to coo most pleasantly to an agreeable 
visitor, and they will tell you lots of things aljout 
some of their big guns that will astonish an 
ordinary chap from a city office. The queer old 
round building just off shore is Fort (?) Lafayette; 
used by the government during the war as a 
prison for misguided politicians and copperheads. 
On the opposite side of the narrows is the magniti- 
cent double fortification at Fort Wadsworth. You 
will shake the dust of the village street of Fort 
Hamilton from your feet with pleasure, but the 
shore road hence to iiay Ridge is the most 
beautiful walk of its kind in the country. It 
will undoubtedly soon form part of the park 
system of Brooklyn, perhaps a greater New York. 
The route, so far, around to this slu)re road has 
passed through an assortment of experiences in 
which all tastes can find something to please. 
The remains of old farm houses ; farms in full 
play, mostly work however ; modern villas ; bits 
of ancient woods and original country roads ; 
asphalt pavements; flower gardens, market gar- 
dens, beer gardens and gardens of all kinds ex- 
cept the garden of Eden ; beaches and sand, and 
mud and rubbish ; meadows deliciousl}^ refreshing 
in their everlasting emerald mantle. The whole 
finds a fitting climax to what was Ijeautiful, and a 



full requital for what was unpleasant, in the beauty 
of the shore road. Here and there the modern van- 
dal has merely laid out a street, and a wretchedly 
bad one, too. The old trees are here; old farm 
fields with their ancient fences and the old build- 
ings are untouciied, except occasionally by a 
bit of modern decoration ; but the glory of the 
whole is the magnificent panordma of the inner 
harbor. Staten Island with its enchanting colors 
and beautiful "sky line" is matchless ns a back- 
ground. The harbor can nowhere else be seen 1o 
such advantage, and with the constantly changing. 
restless passing of vessels, sailing to or from all 
parts of the world, it is absolutely without a 
peer. 

Here is the place to saunter away an hour or 
more, on the way to Bay Ridge, where you 
come again in contact with the "penny-in-the- 
slot" civilization of all such places, where the 
passing crowd may be beguiled to leave their 
small change. 

It is thirty minutes by boat from here to foot 
of Whitehall Street, a boat about every half 
hour — the route being somewhat different from 
the outward trip — fare ten cent*. 

About four to five hours on foot and one hour 
on the boats — twenty cents spent. You will carry 
home with you some views and some fresh air 
that will stay with you awhile. 



FORDHAM HKIGHTS AND WEST 
T^A^ENTY CENTS. 



FARMS. 



Take west side Elevated 
Hundred and Fifty - 
fifth Street, and New 
York & Putnam Rail- 
road to Ford ham 
Heights ; fare fifteen 
cents. Walk east along 
P e 1 h a m A v e n u e 
through Fordham to ,," 
Bronx River Bridge, 
then south by the river 
bank to West Farm^ 
about three miles. 
Trolley cars from 
West Farms to Har- 
lem River, at One 
Hundred and Twenty- 
ninth Street and 
Third Avenue; fare 
five cents. 



Railroad to One 




HIGH BRIDGE AND FORT WASHINGTON. 
FIFTEEN CENTS. 

Take west side Elevated Railroad to One Hundred 

and Fifty -fifth Street, 
and New York & Put- 
nam Railroad to High 
Bridge ; fare ten cents. 
Walk over the celebrat- 
ed High Bridge, west- 
ward to Fort Washing- 
ton Point, on the Hud- 
i-.\ scm River, and continue 
[own the New Boule- 
vard, commanding a 
splendid view of the 
river, to Audubon 
Park, then due east to 
One Hundred and Fif- 
ty-fifth Street, about 
two and one-half miles. 
Return home bj'Elevat- 
ed Railroad or Horse 
cars; fare five cents. 



GUTTENBURG AND FORT LEE. — TWENTY CENTS. 

Take Trolley car from Hoboken Ferries, up the Heights to Guttenburg; fare five cents, 
through Hudson Heights and Shady Side, on the Palisades, to Fort Lee; about four miles, 
from Fort Lee to One Hundred and Thirtieth Street ; fare ten cents. 



Walk 
Ferry 



Express, ^Freight Lines and nnany vexatious questions of a Shipping Clerks ciaily life are 
answered in BULLINGER'S GUIDES. 



WITH THE SHAD HUNTERS. 



97 



A N absolute!}' priuntive life with- 
■'*■ in two miles of New York 
docks. It seems iiu'ie(lil)le. 

Tiiere is ;i fuss_y lot of lit lie 
boiits ruiuiiiit;- from West Thir- 
teenth >St reel to a place called Fori 
Lee, popidariy sujiposed to be a 
huge beer garden, which, like 
many other popular ideas is a 
delusion. Beer there is, and 
where is it not, but it is a mere 
fringe of beer, froth, so to 
speak, hanging along tin 
edge of the river. A 
few minutes walk north 
or soul h, and the foamy 
smell of the '"garden" 
is wiped out by the 
sweet aroma of ua 
lure unadorned. 
Try it. The boats //' 
slop (-'n route at / 
several places. Go / 
to Shadyside, the / 
lirst landing ; 
fare fifteen 
cents; time 
thirty min- 
utes. 



TWENTY-FIVr: CI':NTS. 




you will find a mixture of useful and ornamental. 
Acid from the chemical works ; milk from natures 
factory, the cow, gently grazing the succulent grass. 
The Palisades with Iheir noble frontage, sternly 
overlooking the frivolpusness of the great city at 



llKJr feet. Th(! 
ri\cr, hoik; grand 
cr in the world, 
'{"he sweet scent 
of thr llowers, 
Lirasses, trees and 
medicines. It is 
iiol a pla<'e in 
wliicli lo linger 
long. Turn l(j the 
north along the 
wateis edge and in 
a few minutes 
you are with na- 
ture. Evideuccfl 
ly Ihe towering 
)Uttresses above, 
the lapping waves 
at your feet. Not 
or long, however, 
for within a mile or 
so you come again 
to tokens of man's 
work, in the great 
railroail tunnel near 
Edgewatcr, and the immense docks 
fitted for handling coal by thous- 
ands of tons. 
Hence along the shore again, or 
l)y the upper road if you wish to 
leave the river's edge for a while, to 
Pleasant Valley. A half deserted vil- 
lage; mountains of oyster shells ; ruins 
of what was once a hotel; general old- 
ishne-ss and dilapidation ; a curious 
l)lace to tind within gun shot of land 
that is worth |r)0,()0() an acre, or more. 
On the shore, here, you tind the shad 
hunter. Not a gentleman hunter, with 
^ lancewood rod and silver reel, but only an 

ordinary fisher for a livin--just as were 
some ancient fishermen who lived in 
.Tudea years ago-and a good fellow too. \ou 
can see his house in the picture; ten of 
them live in it during the "height ot the 
season"; and after the season, or between tunes, 
he is a '-photo-rapher"— a common lisherman 
with the soul of an artist; aint it strange. 
Within sight of Grant's tomb, the mighty man 
of the age, and vet a simple child of nature ; he 
would l)e the same if you moved hnn to Cape 
Cod or Mount Desert or Grand Manan. 

In the pictured boat we siiow you, you see 
his "catch" of shad. You have probably thought 
that a "catch" of sha.l meant anything from 
one hundred to a boat-load ; perhaps it will be 
a surprise to know that a "catch" often means 



98 



WITH THE SHAD HUNTERS. 



tivL- or ten, or less, and this possible only every 
twelve liours, in return for watching and care 
and work by day and night for several men. 
Shad can be bought at retail from tifteeu to 
thirty cents ; think of the princely income of the 
shad hun-ers. Surely this is a realistic bit of 
primeval nature, with a primitive man making a 
living in accordance with the edict given at 
Eden, "in the sweat of thy face ;" a good object 
lesson for the nervous, fretful, jaundiced dwellers 
in the palaces on the other side of the great river. 

Along the shore, hence to Fort Lee, is by way 
of an enchanting road, shady, and skirting the 



water. A walk of twenty to forty minutes that 
is of itself worth all the journey. At Fort Lee, 
if time or inclination serves, you can go north 
anil find again more solitude and resting places. 
You can return to the city by the ferry to 130th 
street — fare ten cents — time fifteen minutes. 

Forty -five nunutes on the boats ; a walk of 
about three miles which ought to take at least 
three hours. Four hours for tw^enty-five cents 
and an experience that cannot be duplicated. 
For a picnic party with lunch, the hours for 
resting and full enjoyment can be easily found 
at many places. 



THROUGH HELL GATE. 



TWENTY CENTS. 



ih 4iv, 



IF any place is more beautiful than the lower 
^ end of JSIew York Harbor, it is the upper. 
The immense basin of the lower harbor, with its 
complete frame of hills and meadows, and its 
islands of different shapes and sizes, has advan- 
ta"-es of color and combination that are rare in- 
deed, but the entrance from the sound is banked 
by as rare an arrangement of shore, and as beau- 
tiful an assortment of islands, as can be found 

elsewhere in the world. . " 

Had it not been for the 
remarkable le Ige of rock 
that laid across thvi chan- 
nel, forming what has ^ ' 
been popularly known as 
Hell Gate, and well named 
it was, this entrance to 
the Harbor would always 
have b.'en the gateway 
for all vessels, except 
those bound from or to 

the south ; a royal road . . — 

that in the reg.dness of "^^^ - "'*'.' Z"' 

its procjssion, and its '~- 

natural beauties, would now have been unrivaled. 
From Blackwell's Island on the south, to Willett's 
Point at the east, there are varying widths of 
narrows, and bays, and wide reaches, through 
which an eastern bound vessel sails, passing a 
series of charming natural formations that are 
simply marvelous. It is unfortunate that the 
exigencies of modern civilization have compelled 
the City of New York to use these beautiful 
islands for the confinement of the sick, the insane 
and the criminal, but even such use does not 
lessen their beauty. 

There is a ferry running from the foot of East 
J^inrty-ninth Street to College Point, that prob- 



\ 




X. 



ably not more than one person in a hundred has 
ever heard of, the fare is ten cents, the time of 
passage forty minutes. Taking this ferry, and 
passing out toward the open sound, you cross 
over what was once Hell Gate's dangerous reef ; 
now flattened out by the government, after ten 
years labor, at an expense of over ten millions 
of dollars, the drilling of 113,000 feet of holes, 
and the explosion of 250,000 pounds of Rack-a- 

rock powder (what a sug- 
gestive name), and about 
50,000 poiuids of other 
St uff . W a r d s I sland, 
Randalls Island, the 
North and South Broth- 
ers, Rikers Island, and 
other smaller formations, 
ire all passed, some al- 
most within touch ; with 
light-houses, hospitals 
and other public build- 
ings, which, in spite of 
the suggestive unpleas- 
antness of their uses, do 
not lessen or impair the beauty of the whole. 

On the right, the Long Island shore displays 
a succession of irregular, sloping bluffs, covered 
in large part with suburban residences, lawns, 
clumps of woods, occasional masses of rocks, and 
other bits of coloring, the effect of which is 
finer, if possible, than either shore of the lower 
harbor. 

On the left, the islands, with their channels 
and bays and water intervales, and sunken mead- 
ows lying beyond on the shore of the main- 
land, make a combination of striking and dif- 
fering, yet wonderfully harmonious forms and 
coloring tliat cannot be found elsewhere. 






— *iS^ 



The wise man prepares for his trip ; 
he can find no help equal to BULUNgiER'S MONITOR GUIDE. 



99 



THROUGH HELL GATE. 



And this l)c:uitiful -^atcr course is the l»ii;li- 
Wiiy of vessels in iiuleseribable variety. IJits of 
tii.iis, with coal barge tows, alternate with Alail 
din like palaces of the Boston Lines; wasp-like 
launches and enormous steam coalers; catboats 
and three-masted cotisters; yawls and dredgers, 

in endless and almost f^:^ — ■ ■ ■ ■ — :• 

confusing procession, 
bear constant testi- 
mony of the commer- 
cial greatness of the 
great metropolis to 
which this channel is 
one of the keys. 

T r a g c d i e s h a v e 
borne their dreadful 
fruit lie re, too. The 
barcly-covereil rocks 
have claimed many a 
victim, and evea the 
emerald -hued meadows 
have firmly held the 
prow of the burning 
boat, while the water, 
that lapped their quiet 
shore, has covered with 
gjntle pall the dying 
and the dead. 

The forty minutes 
sail to College Point 
is a rich and rare ex- 
perience. 

At College Point 
you will probably fol- j^^ 
low the shore, and 
wander along about 
three miles or so, to 
Whitestone Landing, 
returning by some of 
the many country 
lanes, or by the rail- 
road. The country is 
undulating and strik- 
ingly picturesque, 
with many bits of 
sylvan beauty that will 
afford opportunity for 
rest and lunch. Two 
or three liours can 
easily be passed in 
lanes or woods, or on 
the shore. 

I f you are of indus- 
trious ha])its, there is 
no reason why ycm 
should not improve the 
opi)ortunity by doffing 
your footgear, and hunting for clams ; they are 
bedded all along the shore, and although the 
sport may not be as exciting as hunting man- 




eating tigers in India, still there is an eleni.'nt 
of novelty about it that, might prove interesting 
to a cadaverous city cliTk. 'I"ry it, and you will 
certainly be snr|uise(| at the abandon with which 
you expose yourself to the gentle wasli of the 
water, as it soaks the hiwer ends of your rolled 
■ " 1 up tronsers ; indeed. 

the chaiK IS are that, 
for the moment, you 
would ii.s lief, MS not. 
take a lnml)le in the 
enticing waves. 

If you forg(t tliat 
you are g(ttirg tired, 
and linjicr too long on 
your way to White- 
stone, yon can ti;ke 
the railroad to X( w 
York from there ; bnl 
you will be wiser to 
return to College 
Point, and home l)y 
tile ferry. ^'( u wi'.l 
tiud the coloring of 
the setting sun so 
dilTerent from morn- 
ing or middu}'. that 
the picture homeward 
bound will seem a 
new one, more beauti- 
ful, perliaps, than lie- 
fore. 

The ferry fare will 
amount to twenty 
cents ; you may. ])er- 
liaps, spend ten cents 
nn the railroad. You 
will certainly get full 
return for either total. 



FORT LEE 

AND 

SHADY SIDE. 



85 CENTS. 



Take Palisades 
Railroad to Fort Lee ; 
fare twenty cents. 
Walk south from Fort 
Lee, below the Pali 
sades, along the Hud- 
son River, through 

Pleasant Valley and Edgewater to Shady Side. 

Boat from Shady Side to New York; fare fifteen 

cents. 



Time-table information — Trams— Boats — Steameis — for Six Thousand places is 
given in BULLINGER'S IVIONITOR GUIDE. 



TOO 



LOST IN JERSEY. 



'FHERE is a lot of fun in o-ettins: lost, if you 
get lost in the right place. New Jersey, 
for example, is a good place ; by being lost it 
is not meant that you are to get bogged in 
Hudson County, or snarled up in the woods 
of Sussex County. There might be some ex- 
citement in either of these situations and a ter- 
rible lot of fun. No, the idea is to go into an 
unfamiliar country and allow your legs to carry 
you in any direction that 
their whim compels. 

Of course, you are not 
to get hopelessly and 
seriously lost ; but how 
could you, any way, 
where there is a road 
or houses in sight from 
almost any point? You 
are to be a child, and 
enjoy the world simply 
and aimlessly. After 
you have roamed hither 
and yon, turned 
to north and 
south as the fancy 
seized you, e x - 
p 1 o r e d glens, 
climbed hills and 
rested in the shade 
of trees, it will 
be a test of your 
wood-craft and of 
your geographical 
instinct to find 
your way home 
again 

Plainfield is a 
feasible starting- 
point to get lost 
from. It is only 
twenty-four miles 
from New York, but that is far enough to 
make it seem as if you were as safely lost as 
you would be in Michigan. The town itself is 
pr. tty. 1)ut except for its little art gallery it need 
not detain you In order to save your legs for 
further use in more sylvan places, take here a 
Somerville Street car to its terminus, thence fol- 
loAving the very pretty Stony Brook through 
Washingtonville, passing the little Wetumpka 
Falls by the way, and climbing the hill you reach 
the famed Washington Rock. The view from the 
rock is the widest and most agreeable to be had 
anywhere in the neighborhood. It may or may 




not be true that Washington used to go up there 
to stud}' the movements of the British troops. As 
the British were out of sight from the rock it is 
very likely that he didn't. But if, as is more 
likely, he went up there to rest and think and 
enjoy the prospect, it speaks well for his taste. 
There is a green plain twenty miles wide, 
stretching away to the " Kills" that cuts olf Staten 
Island from the main land ; and the Navesink 

Highlands, Statue 
of Liberty and 
Brooklyn Bridge 
are in sight on a 
clear day. 

After enjoying 
tliis view take the 
road that turns 
across the hill and 
that presently drops 
you into Washing- 
ton Valle.v, where 
you will find a bet- 
ter road. Turn to 
your left along 
this better road and 
you will come, in 
a little while tc 
Warrenvilie, where 
it forks. Now take the 
right turning and cross the 
western roll of the "W'atch- 
ung Mountains, slightly 
higher than the first ridge 
that fronts the plain, pass- 
ing through Mount Bethel. 
But we are not going to 
keep on directing you. We 
have lured yoii so far only 
that you may get safely 
away from the settlements 
of importance. You are 
now in a pleasant, rolling land, witn a quiet- 
ness upon everything that i^uts you in thought and 
fact far from New York, and you can ramble 
now until you reach the Pacific Ocean, if your 
mood and money hold out. There is the Passaic 
just ahead, deep enough for a swim in a few 
])laces, and deep enough to paddle in barefoot, 
any way, and just the other side of Long Hill, 
which makes a wall on the farther side of the 
river, is Great Swamp, one of its feeders. 

Now you can roam all of a long day without 
running into anything more exciting than a hamlet 
where the fathers still vote for Andrew Jackson, 



A Shipping Clerk without BULLINGER'S GUIDES is a good deal like a 
Steam Engine without a Boiler. 



LOST I\ JERSEY. 



101 



lirougli 



or yon may bring up at ^Morristnwii. or yon may 
get over into the Icmcsonic districl lo llic west 
of it, amoiii;- hills that really Ix'gin to suggest 
inounlains, or you may follow llie trough in tiie 
Wateiiung Range, and turn l)aek toward liouiid 
Brook by the falls and 
(r'hinmey lioek, or 
Plaiutleld through 
romantic Xoleh. or 
Seoteh l*lains i 
tlie ra\ ine road, or con- 
tinue iiorLliward unti 
you come to Millington. 
or waiuh'r on to the 
agreeable town of Sum- 
mit, and return by rail 
past tlu; charm- 
ing ]) a r k of 
Short Hills and 
the widely ex- 
tended Oranges. 
T h e s e are 
only possibili- 
ties. An early 
start fromWash- 
ingtou Rock, a 
lively gait, with 
lierhaps a lift 
in a farmer's 
wagon or a 
country doctor's 
turnout, might 
e\en carry you 
to Lake Ilopat- 
cong. The roads in Jersey are being improved 
faster than those in most of the other states and 
it is even possil)le to get over (piite a inunber 
of them on a bicycle. If you doift want to get 
lost long, and want to tind where you can con- 
nect with a railroad, or which is the better of 




two liigliways, th<' Rand and McXally map. 
called "The Country An.iuid New York" will 
be of a.ssistanee. It is based on relialde surveys 
and di.slingiushes (lie good roads froni tiie bad ones 
Th< re are i)lenty of other jdaces to get lost in. 

One could go to 
ralerson, for in- 
stance, see the neg- 
i-cled but r ea I ly 
I e ;i u t i f u I falls 
there, and pu^li on 
among the hills to 
tile West or north. 
Or. he ciiuld go 
up the Hudson for 
I wa\' and t h e n 
>t rike into the 
c() u n try to the 
west, 'i'lie region 
beyond the AValch- 
ung hills is recom- 
mendeil because it 
is unhackneyed and 
little known. There 
are indications of a sim- 
ple and ji r i ni i t i v e life 
that it is refreshing to 
ind so n e a r to a cit}'. 
There are farm houses 
where one may still see 
tall clocks, rag car])ets 
and old blue china. '^I'here 
are lovely pastorals, then- 
are quaint bridges, tliere 
are placid streams, there are bits of color to at- 
tract th(> artist, in the red roads, the old houses, 
the venerable willows and the herds of cattle; 
there are llowers for the b(jtanist and subjects 
for the kodaker. And as soon as you are tired 
of getting lost it is easy to find yourself again. 



ONE DAY OUTINGS BY STE AIVIBO ATS. 

Many One Day Outings by steamboats leaving 
New York in the morning and returning same 
day, can be made up by consulting the steamboat 
time-tables in Bullinger's Monitok Guide. 

In table of "Steamboats for Places On Hudson 
River" see: Fort Lee. Garrisons. Newburg. Shady 
Side, West Point. 

In table of "Steamboats for I'laces Not on 
Hudson River" see the following places: Atlantic 
Highlands, Branchport, Browns Dock, Highlands, 
Highland Beach, Long Branch, Little Silver, 
Pleasure Bay, Red Bank, Seabright. 

These excursions will, witliout exception, l)e 
found thoroughly enjoyable aiul satisfactory. 
The hours of arrival at and return from the 
various landings, allow anywhere from two to 
six h(mrs for jaunts and rambles, family picnics 
or other occupation ou shore. 



BERGEN POINT AND PORT RICHIVIOND. 
THItnY CENTS. 

Take Central Railroad of New Jersey to Bergen 
Point, fare fifteen cents; then by ferry across the 
Kill Von KuU to Pcn-t Richmond, Staten Is'and, 
fare five cents. \Valk .about two and one-half 
miles down the Richmond Terrace to St. George, 
and take Stateu Island Ferry to New Y'ork, fare 
ten cents. 



FANWOOD AND MURRAY HILL. 
ONE DOLLAR AND IWENTY-FIVE CENTS. 

Take Central Railroad of New Jersey to Fan- 
wood; fare tifty-live cents. Walk from Fanwood 
to Scotch Plains, and over the ^Vatchung Moun- 
tains to Murray Hill ; about live miles. Take 
Delaware. Lackawanna & Western Itailroad to 
New Y'ork; fare seventj' ceut,s. 



102 



ON LAND AND SEA. 



FIFTY CENTS. 



f"" 



AT nine o'clock in the morning, every day in 
^"^ tlie week, boats leave New York for the 
Navesink and Shrewsbury Rivers. Not the big 
excursion boats with their rushing and crushing 
crowds, their sheet-iron sandwiches, "who wants 
tlie waiter" and disgusting beer-slopped decks, 
but quiet, unpretentious little crafts that take you 
thirty-five (jr forty miles into a 
country that you've probably 
never heard of, and bring you 
back again in time for a late 
supper, with an appetite that 
would ruin a boarding-house 
and only charge fifty cents for 
doing it. You can even get a 
dose of mal-de-mer thrown in, if 
3'ou choose a blustering, windy 
day or try to smoke a cheap 
cigar on tiie quarter-deck. We 
know little or noth- 
ing of these salty 
rivers, sweet with 
the odor of sea- 
grasses, spreading 
out, with their 
beautiful bays 
and inlets, like 
the arms of an 
octopus, over 
t h e J e r s e y 
coast. Yet 
here is the 
iiome of the 
hiscious soft- 
shell crab, the 
clara and scal- 
1 o p . The 
name of Fair- 
haven recalls 
no memories of an an- 
cient day, yet here the juicy 
oyster is snatched from his little bed 
and turned, for our delectation, to a ' 
box." 

Let us make the trip some bright summer day 
and have something beside baseball to speak of 
in after years. Let us get up early some morn- 
ing and take the nine o'clock boat for Red Bank. 
Red Bank don't amount to much ; it's a pretty 
place, but is nice chiefly as a good starting point 
for pleasant rambles of many sorts. 

A ting-a-ling of the bell, and a toot of the whistle 
and we are ofll: down the river, past the Battery, 
and before we have made up our minds which is 




■ fry in a 



the shady side of the boat, we have passed 
Quarantine and are running out through the 
Narrows, with the frowning forts on either side 
of us, and what appears to be the ocean in front ; 
having run through the finest harbor, in every 
sense, in the world. Sheering off to the right, we 
get a glimpse of South Beach, the Coney Island of 
^._^ , r-^ Richmond County, and 

A in a few moments are 
passing the Quarantine 
Islands and stiaming 
across the lower bay at 
a lively gait. The city 
is fading from om- view; 
the domes and minarets 
of lower Broadway are 
"hull down;" the cas- 
tles of Brighton Beach 
are hiddeu in the haze, 
and for aught we know, 
the captain may be 
heading us for Europe. 
But we are soon in sight 
of land, and in answer 
to our anxious inquiries, 
learn that it is Jersey. 
From dreams of Europe 
to the sight of Jersey is 
about ten minutes, dead 
reckoning, but we greet 
it as a long lost friend, 
and feel like sharing the 
contents of our lunch 
basket with the gentleman 
in the pilot house. 
Taking a seat at the 
front of the boat, we look 
out upon a scene, strange 
and beautiful. On our right, 
the Highlands, studded with 
pines, and on our left a narrow 
strip of land, terminating, al)oul 
a mile behind us, in Sandy Hook, 
and separating us from, but not 
hiding, the ocean beycmd. 

The scene, from our places on the upper deck 
will never be forgotten. Pleasure boats of every 
description dotted here, there and everywhere. 



Sailino- 



fishino; and 



crabbing 



Canoes 



dodging in and out ; bathers on the beach ; saucy 
little launches puffing away for dear life ; and 
a brightness over everything. We run through 
the drawbridge, fcteer to the right, under the 
shadow of the lighthouses, those guiding stars 



BULLINGER'S GUIDES are good things to have at your elbow, 
they answer many perplexing questions. 



1C3 



ON LAND AND SKA. 



to the marincT, which stand hi.ch up on the 
edge of the cliffs ; call for a inoiiicul at the 
Ilighlauds, and on again, to the right, up the 
Navcsink, making several more stops, and reach- 
ing Kcd Bank by about noon. 
If we have our wives or sweet 
hearts with us, as we should 
have, we can sock a (piiet 
spot, easily found within 
a mile, in the woods 
or on tlu; shore, 
by taking the^" 
road towards . 
Oceanic, or over 
the river, and eat 
our lunch and other- 
wise disport ovu-selves 
until the boat returns 

But if we arc 
still novices, of 
•'maiden medita- 
tion, fancy free," 
let us put our 
lunch in our 
pockets and stait 
for a walk. Let 
us go the w ay we 
came. Follow the 
river back again 

and see where it 

takes us. We 

have plenty of 

time. The boat 

does'ut leave 

again for four 

hours, and we can 

take it at any of 

the landings 

lower down. 
We go through 

Red Bank with 

its crowd of Sum- 

m e r cottages — 

mansions for the 

rich and cabins for the 

poor — and out among 

the green fields. A walk 

of two miles brings us 

to F a i r h a v e n . and we 

wander down by the river, 

exploring the shell-covered beach, sit 

on an up-turned boat and eat our lunch. Some 

one tells us it is four miles to Oceanic ; what 

of it •! Tlu! roads are good and shady ; our 

spirits are high, and we've plenty of time. The 

walk to Oceanic is a treat. The sky and carih 



ki.-s each other, o'er sun lit waves or cnicrald 
fields, and the roads and p.ilhs an; llirough en- 
chanting combinations of faniis and villas. Wc 
meet the organ-grinder witli his monkey ; the 
itinerant merchant with his warehou.se on liis 
back ; we see the fish hawk's 
nests high up in the trees — 
and we reach Oceaiucas fresh 
as tile proverbial lark. 
There are still tiie same 
ood roads to tempt us 
en. and iSeabright 
three miles ahead. 
We gradually 
1( ave the Nave- 
sink, and another 
hour finds us 
crossing the 
Shrewsbury Kiv- 
er at Seabright, 
and once again on 
the narrow strip 
of sand, and tlie 
ocean at our feet. 
From here we can 
take the Pleasure 
Bay boat for 
home, but the 
walk along the 
shore is tempting, 
as the breakers 
come rolling gen- 
tly in, and in 
twenty minutes 
we are down at 
Highland Beach, 
over the swing 
bridge and back 
airain at the High 
lands, where those 
us who have any 
grit," climb the hill 
to the lighthouse and 
obtain a view that 
alone is worth the 

whole trip. 
The boat .st(anis 

up about five 

o'clock and we take 

our seats, prepared to 

thoroughly enjoy a two hours 

rest ; pleased with ourselves and 

the chance that took us there. 

Fare for the round trip fifty rents ; from 

,,„, toSpm. A whole day of fresh atrot the 

irLshest kind, ande.erci.es of the very best sott. 





104 



WITH AN OAR OR TWO. 



FIFTY CENTS. 



A 



PICNIC or a stroll with one's own k'gs, as 
motive power, has an element of certainty 
about it ; you know where you are going, and 
how far to go. There are many who think that 
they will do better with a boat and oars. If 
they know it all, all right ; if they don't, they 
had better walk and pull the boat, canal-mule 
fashion. 




Rowing is fine, no doubt, sftying nothing about 
the perspiration and the stiif arms and back it 
engenders ; but when to these you add the catch- 
ing of numerous "crabs," and the consequent 
mortification, the horrid blisters on the hands 
and fingers, the sunburn on the neck and the 



port-wine coloring of tlie nose, one may be in- 
clined to wish that the seductive temptation had 
been withstood. However, if you must go a- 
boating (and it is certainly not the poorest 
anuisement in the world) find, if possible, some 
water that will bear your bark in shady and 
sequestered glades, where the summer sun's rays 
will not always grill and broil. Such a water 
course is hard to find. The waters 
around New York are eitht r too wide 
and too open for shade, or too shallow 
for boats with human freight. We 
know the spot, however, where "the 
wild thyme grows." It is in .lersey — 
dear little Jersey — the Hackensaek 
River. You must go to Hackensaek ; 
Anderson Street Station of the New 
Jersey & New York Railroad is the 
best. It is about six minutes walk 
from Anderson Street bridge, at which 
they will rent you a boat from fifty 
cents a day, upward. 

Don't try to scull. Start with two 

oars at least, although if you are 

captain of the crew, and an oarsman, 

you will know better than to take 

more than two. Lifelong friendships 

have been fractured by the laughter 

and derision e.xcited by the frantic 

efforts of ambitious oarsmen, who 

knew nothing about rowing. 

Point your craft up the river. It is, 

in its way, a very exceptional stream. 

Its bed is laid over just enough shoals 

and bars to afford you the occasional 

excitement of incipient shipwreck, and it 

has deep pools, in which the wary, small 

monsters of the deep tempt you to stop 

and try the persuasive powers of a well 

baited hook. You have company on its 

bosom, too 

schooners, in tow of 
pass up and down, as reminders of the 
busy world that seems so far away from 
this wonderful (piietude. Along the banks 
run trains, threading their sinuous way 
among the shrubbery and the little hills. 
The whole course of the stream is 
diversity itself. While here, "on the wide marsh 
the purple blossommed grasses soak up the 
sunshine," 'tis but a few rods and bits of dark 
and tangled woods come down to the waters 
edge to greet you. Prosperous and thrifty little 
farms, and well kept lawns and boat and 



Freight laden barges and 
noisy little tugs. 



When a Doctor has a hurried call out of town, 
BULLINGER'S MONITOR GUIDE puts him on his way at once. 



105 



WITH AN OAR OR TWO. 



narrowiiiij down into swift lillle 



batli houses of city residents meet you licre and 
tluTc. Now 

stone-fretted straits, anon spreading 
out into calm reaeiies, the river 
shows its many changing phases of 
hill and meadow, of calm and fret, 
of nature and art, in a most en- 
chanting variety. 

It is alx)ut four miles to Oradell, 
and on the way you Avill have 
passed many a ])laee where the 
temptation lo land and rest awhile, 
or discuss the lunch that you will 
wisely lake with you, was irresistible. 
Don't avoid these tempting spots 
always; one of the best parts ol 
the fun (if rowing is to stop and 
rest often, very often, and this is just 
the place for that ]iart of the fun. 

If you can atTord to risk your- ' 
self out late at night, (h)irt turn 
back at Oradell, until the sun is well 
down. The current will help you 
home. A moondiglited stream, with 
summer evening zephyrs, and the 
myriad voices of bird and insect life 
clianting tlieir evening Te Deums, will 
be an experience of nature's most 
beautiful time, " the sweet hour of 
rest," tliat will make you 

"In listless quietude of mind 
Yield to all 

The change of cloud and wave 
and wind." 

Such an outing, properly taken, in 
the spirit of rest and i^leasure, with 
a little pull and a good deal of laying 
off, and a listless drifting home, with 
perhaps a bit of song, is simplj- 
delicious. 

The railroiid fare is only tifty cents 
for the round trip, the hire of the 
boat will be about fifty cents. If you put in a 
whole day at it, with the rush of the average 



Ameri(!an-oiiting, it will 
more for arnica, witcii 



cost you Hometiiing 
la/.el and perliaps a 




porous plaster, but if done in tlie proper spirit it 
will do vou more good than a whole drug shop. 



CRESSKILL AND YONKERS. 
EIGHTY-FIVE CENTS. 

Take Northern Kailroad of New Jersey to Cress- 
kill ; fare forty-five cents. Walk over the I'ali- 
sades and down to the Hudson lliver at Alinne, 
about two and one-half miles. Ferry from Alpine 
to Yonkers, half-hourly, fare ten cents, affording 
a magnificent and extended view of the Palisades, 
and a sail on the Hudson River. Take New- 
York Central Railroad from Yonkers to New 
York ; fare thirty cents. 



SCHRA.ALENBURG AND CHERRY HILL- 
EIGHTY CENTS. 
Take West Shore Railroa<l to Schraalenburg ; 
fare forty cents: walk to Overton, one ndle. 
turn to right and continue on to New Millord, 
aljout one mile. Cross the Hackensack and follow 
the river south for about three miles, passing 
River Edge, and along the beautiful Hackensack 
Valley to Cherry Hill. Take the New Jer.sey & 
New York RailVoad to New York ; fare forty 
cents. 



The Bishops and prominent Clergymen of Ihis City have BULLINGER'S lUIONITOR GUIDE. 
Henry Ward Beecher was one of its first patroiis. 



106 



A NURSERY OF ROMANCE. 



EIGHTY-FOUR CENTS. 



"THE valley of the Hudson has begotten more 
legends, and more poetry, and more romance 
than any other part of the country. The very 
names of the beautiful hills that outline its banks 
"betoken the queer ideas that haunted it — " Cro' 
N'est," "Break Neck," "Anthony's Nose," " Dun- 
derburg," etc., etc. ]Mad Anthony Wayne, the 
gifted Andre, the traitor Arnold, and others, un- 




numbered, have left their names on the pages of 
its history. Cowboys, and Skinners, and Con- 
tinentals, and Royalists, fought to and fro over 
its hills and valleys. Its whole atmosphere is re- 
dolent of noble deeds of great men. 

The New York Central will take you over 
ground, about which cluster memories of the 
varied changes of our earlier struggles for liberty. 



Along the Harlem, through High Bridge, Kings- 
bridge (where the first toll bridge was built), on 
to Spuyten Duyvil, was the southern boundary of 
the "neutral ground" over which ranged " Cow- 
boys" and "Skinners," intent on plunder, with 
war as an excuse. At Youkers is the old manor 
house of the Phillipse family, where dwelt j\Iary 
Phillipse, said to be the first love of George 
Washington. At Hastings, Cornwallis 
crossed the river to attack Fort Lee. At 
Dobbs Ferry is the old mansion in which 
the British officers decided upon the evacu- 
ation of New York City. At Tarry- 
town, Major Andre was captured, and 
here is Sleepy Hollow, and the grave of 
Irving, and the same old bridge over 
which the headless horseman chased poor 
Iciiabod Crane. 

At Irviugton, but a long stones throw, 
as it were, from the city, is Sunnj^side, 
the home of our sweet writer, Irving. 
It is well worth a visit, and in connec- 
tion with a ramble over the mountain 
into the Nepperhan Valley will give an 
experience s tr an ge enough to fill 
many a day. 

The New York Central will land 
you at Irvington in fifty minutes. 
Note the fishermen along the river 
shore, as you go, in boats, or on 
the rocks or little docks. 

Sunuyside lies north of the station. 
It is a stone-gabled house, built by 
the privy councilor of Peter Stuyve- 
sant, commanding a majestic view 
of the river and highlands. 

The new building, from which the 
great Cosmopoliton Magazine is is- 
sueil in a monthly flood, 1^' s south 
of the station, and is ' .il worth 
seeing as an expression of the new 
idea that no means are too good for 
use in producing good work. The 
road running east from this grand 
building leads, under the magnificent 
croton viaduct, to and through a 
country five hundred miles from New York City, 
or at least, it ought to be. For a mile or so an 
assortment of modern villas, lawns, gardens, etc.. 
is passed. By the roadside is the pump that 
draws water for Irvington, from a hole five hun- 
dred feet deep ; five hundred thousand gallons a 
day, showing that the inhabitants of Irvington 
nuist be eitiier very thirsty or very cleanly. 



Many of our Bankers and most prominent Busmess Men, 
have BULLINGER'S MONITOR GUIDE at their city homes, and in summer at their country houses. 



A NURSERY OF ROMANCE. 



:07 



Beyond tlic puinpiiin-housc the road cliinhs over 
the mountain, throui;-li cuts and dclilcs in tlic 
rocks and anions;- the Ijouidcrs, sind witlial, is of 
the i<in(l that would disgrace the rou<i;h('st section 
of the Rockies. Tliat sucli a road should exist within 
twenty miles of New Yoik, is a marvel ; it is 
worth a days jouiiuy to see it. Over this road 
and niounlaiii, to the eastern slope, jiast a little 
cluster of the kind of liovels always found in 
the company of such a road, and the valley of 
the SawnuU Creek opens out, with verdant sides 
of _ii-ently slopinu" hills, fr;uniiiii' enchant ni_n' little 
vales and glades of meadows, trees and water, 
that would be ditlicult to match. 
An old-lashioned country road, 
with priinitivc fai-nis, meanders along- 
the valley, and followinij,- the bed of 
the little river is the line of the 
New York A: Putnam Railroad, 'lliis 
is the veritable valley of the sleep- 
ers. Until Avitliin ;i few years, the 
Hudson River Railroad on the one 
side, and the Harlem Railroad on 
the other, gave egress to the world 
to those who wanted to see it ; but 
the hills and mountains on either 
side were so menacing that the 
world beyond could not tempt the 
people of the peaceful valley forth. 
The recent years have left their im- 
print in occasional heaps of debris 
from the new aqueduct, and in the 
shape of a few modern villas, but 
otherwise <^he country is as charm- 
ing as when, years agone, Phyllis 
went to church on a pillion, and her Corydoi 
piped to the gentle lamb and wooed tin 
succulent potato. 

At the foot of the mountain, the railroad 
is met, between Worthington (platform) and 
AYoodlands. Turn either north or south here, 
.dong the track, or down by the river side, 
or on the country road, as your fancy tempts 
you. You may wander through the valley 
until you are physically tired out, and yon 
may wander all day before you will tiiv 
of the sweet and pastoral country. You will 
pass little platform stations, every mile or 
so. The busy little river winds with truly ser- 
pentine course, to and fro, through brawling bits, 
and mirrored calm, and iiere and there wee lakes 
and openings that frame ]>ictures beyond the artists 
power. 

A good walker, who has been wise enough 
to allow time for it, shcjuld wander north from 
Worthington, as far as Elmsford, arountl which 
place cluster many memories. An old church, 
raised in 1770, with century-old graves of revolu- 
tionary patriots. Here is the monument of Van 
Wart, one of the captors of Andre. 

We ended our ramble and took the train at 



Ardslcy. wher<> were signed the linal papers of 
jx'ace between Eiighmd and tlie rnited Slates 
of America, immediately after which the IJrilisli 
left the country and liie Continental Army dis- 
banded. 

This valley has possibilities, present and future, 
of rest and benedictions, for weary toilers of ilie 
city, so near and yd so far, that its an<'ieiil 
toilers never dreamed of. It is so aboriginal in 
many respects that it will well repay an outing 
visit. The old locomotive, used on the train the 
writer rode on, tiie other day. was well worth a 
picture; with one of the old original big smoke- 




stacks, it vomited forth great masses of black 
sul|ilnin>Hs smoke, and burning cinders as large 
as iieas and nuts, that left an inunense cloud 
behind it, shutting out the sun and heavens for 
a while: its awful trail of gas made the sweet- 
ness of the atmosphere the more enjoyable. 

The walk from Irvington across the mountain 
to the railroad, is about two miles, and to Ardslcy 
about two miles more ; to Elmsford and return 
to Ardsley would be about two miles additional. 
The fare to Irvington is forty- four cents ; from 
Ardsley to One Hundred and Fifth-tifth Street is 
forty cents; total expense, eighty-four cents. 



Don't forget BULLINGER'S GUIDES— they will serve you well, m t" 



108 



THE ELIZABETH RIVER. 



FIFTY CENTS. 



WITHOUT being ex- 
actly a liar, he had 
fallen into the habit of 
disregarding the truth to 
such an extent, that 
whenever he commenced 
a story, as he often did, 
of having discovered some 
new place, or done some 
hitherto unheard of deed, 
or caught big fish—" 
bigger fish than you ever 
saw down in Fulton Mar- 
ket" — we usual- 
ly laughed at 
him; but he 
"caught" us the 
other evening as 
we rode togeth- 
er to Harlem, 
and he told us 
a long rigma- 
role, that lasted 
all the way to 
One Hundred 
and Twenty- 
fifth Street, 
about the Eliza- 
beth River, with 
its whirling ed- 
dies, its rippling 
rills and its shady 
knolls, and about nightin- 
gales and fish (he never 
forgot the fish). But when 
we suggested going with 
him on the Saturday after- 
noon and taking a look at 
the place, he had an en- 
gagement else- 
where, possibly c 
to unearth some ' 
other wonder. 

However, he 
told us a lot more 
about it, and how 
to get there, and 
even offered to 
reimburse o u r 
exchequer if we 
didn't like it, so 
we followed his 
instructions, and 
caught the ten 
past one train on 
the Jersey Cen- 
tral, for Eliza- 




beth. "We were 
there in a little 
over half an 
hour. The ride 
in the cars was 
a pleasant sur- 
prise, for after 
clearing Jersey 
City, we seem- 
ed to be run- 
ning round the 
Bay, at many 
points close to 
the water. We 
could see away 
down to the 
Narrows, and 
as we ran on a 
mile or two a 
collision with Staten Is- 
land seemed inevitable, 
but Constable Hook came 
between us. and we pass- 
ed it without accident; 
running bj' the pretty 
stations of Bayonne ; 
catching a 
glimpse of the 
New Jersey 
Athletic Club, 
and plunging 
headlong into 
the sea; at least, 
it seemed like 
it, for the wa- 
ter was on ev- 
ery side, and 
nothinir but the 
force of circum- 
stances to keep 
us out of it. 
We regained 
our courage as 
the train pulled 
up in Elizabeth, 
having crossed 
the Newark Bay on a tres- 
tle nearly two miles long. 
Elizabeth is famous 
chiefly, for its commuters, 
l)ut whether its commu- 
ters are famous for any- 
thing is indeed question- 
able. Of the river which 
biars its name there is 
no doubt. Hidden away, 
from pure shyness, like 



THE KLIZAHKTII RI\i;r. 



109 



the ripest l)lackb('rry on the liusli, \vc must seek 
it out, in its liidiui:!: place, and we shall he well 
repaid for our trouhle. WalUinii- aloiii^ Morris 
A\cnue. we found it in almut three minutes, 
running lazily alonij; under a little hridnc, where 
some small hoys were takiui;- an early lesson in 
|)atienee. The lirst lane on our riii'lit hrouii'ht \is 
lo its hanks : we took the ri<;ht one. from iieces- 
.sity. and heuan our explorations at that point. 

'rwistiiiir and turnini,'' nhout like an eel; huli;- 
iiii^ out at one spot and contraetinu: itself at an- 
other, like a twentieth century _<;irl, it led us 
throuiih, cool and shady f^rovvn, out into the open 
lields, where it assumed the proportions of a res- 
<'r\(iir, and on at;'ain into a viriiin forest. A uroup 
of lishermen had «ou.!J,"lit a (piiet ])ool on the oj)- 
j)()site hank, so we took a seat beneath a n'iant 
chestnut, determined to verify the legend we had 
Iieard. A man with a .i;un, in (juest of uamier 
food, sjioke of haxiiii;- shot hlue heron in these 
Avoods — had he said crocodiles we could easily 
have lielie\'ed him. A short walk l)roui;ht us to 
the Lehigh Valley Railroad and to the meadows 
again. A fallen tree, worn liat with use, served 
as a bridge over the stream, and we crossed it to 
its western bank : ])assed an old mill, crossed tJie 
Salem road, and plunged int(» the w(»ods once more. 



Here an artist was busy witii a lovely view. 
A stalely willow was pressed into service us n 
foreground, and seen through ils branches, the 
river divided into several .streams; the Hurdighl 
trickled through myriad lilile npenings in lh<' 
foliage, and the .scene was lluoded with a golden 
line. We lingered for awhile, then taking the 
left branch of the river, came only too soon to 
the lields. Asleep little lull on our right tempted 
us to clind) it. and the view from ils Kuriimit 
was anothi'r surju-ise. covering an e.\ pause of 
surrounding country, as delightful as it whs un 
expected. 

Descending to the ri\( r. we cro.ssed it at Liml- 
say's Farm, and in live minutes were on Morris 
AveDiH', about three miles from w here we started. 
A walk of less than a mile, over a pleasant mad. 
with the sun low (h)\vn in tlie west, brought us 
to the .Morris Avemie Station of the Lehigh Val- 
ley Railroad, where we caught a train for New 
York, determined, for the future, to jiay mf)re 
respecllul attention to the adventurotis talcs of 
our |)revaricating friend. 

The railroad fares were twenty-five cents each 
way. and our oidy regret was that we liad not 
gone early in the morning, ami spent the (hiy 
there. 



VAN CORTLANDT AND PEI.-HAM. 
TWENTY CENTS. 

Take New York & Putnam Railroad from One 
Hundred and Fift\ -tifth Street and Eighth Avenue 
to Van Cortlandt; fare tifteeu cents. Walk east- 
ward through the historic and picturesque Van 
Cortlandt Park, down the Mosholu Parkway, 




through Bedford Park, to the Bronx River, then 
south through Bronx Park to Pelham Avenue, then 
west to Fordham; about four miles in all. Return 
by Trolley cars from Fordham to One Hundred 
and Twenty-ninth Street and Third Avenue; fare 
five cents. 



BAY RIDGE AND FORT HAMILTON. 
TWENTY CENTS. 

Take Ferry from New York to Bay Ridge; fan- 
ten cents. Walk along the Shore Road, command- 
ing an extensive view of the Bay and the Narrows, 
to Fort Hamilton; about three miles. A visit to 
the fort will be interesting and protitable. Good 




fishing can be had from tlie head of the pier, 
and boats for a row on the bay can be liired 
for a small price. Trolley cars from Fort Ham- 
ilton to Brooklyn Bridge, fare ten cents ; or to 
Thirty ninth Street, S(nith Brooklyn, and Ferry to 
New York, fare ten cents. 



no 



"FISHIN"'— WITH A TRIPOD. 



NINETY CENTS. 



ttQRANFORD!" yelled the brakeman as 

pushed the tip of his nose iuto 
smoking car. "Cmnford," 
he howled in a louder tone, — :^- 
tlien banged the door to, 
evidently fearing to be 
asphixiated by the smoke, 
or fancying that anyone 
travelling in such an atmos- 
phere must naturally be 
going to Pittsburg. He 
was mistaken, however, for 
I grabbed ni}^ camera and 
tripod and got out. A 
camera weighs 
no more than a 
paint-box and a 
camp-stool, and 
paints much bet- 
ter pictures than 
I can, so I alw^ays 
take it along 
when an oppor- 
tunity for gettiog 
out of the city 
presents itself. 

An enthusi- 
astic Jerseyman 
had told me that 
a walk from 
Cranford to Mill- 
burn, taking in 
Branch Mills and 
Springfield by the 
way, would do 
me more good than a bottle 
of sarsaparilla so, as it 
costs about the same, I 
determined to try it. 

It's a good plan 
when in a strange 
place, to " inter- 
view" the na- 
tives. They never 
seem to have 
much to do, and 
are usually will- 
ing to indulge in 
a little chat, 
buttonholing 
colored 
man who 



so 
a 



gentle- 
was 



hanging over the 
bridge which 
spans the Rah- 
way River, and 
making faces at 
his own refiec- 



he tion in the water, I asked him the way to Branch 
the Mills. He heaped a few more insults on his 

sliadow.then gave 
, me the desired 
information. 

"It's three 
miles, Boss, right 
up the Spring- 
tield Avenue ; 
you cross the river 
again. Boss, and 
keep to the left 
over the hill and 
say. Boss, there's 
good fishin' up at 
the lake." 

I wondered 
why he mention- 
ed the "fishin'," 
liut took his ad- 
vice and the 
Springfield Aven- 
ue, passed the 
liver again, shaded by 
massive overhanging 
trees, and forming a boun- 
dary to many a 
lovely garden. 
Tiny little boats 
were moored, here 
and there, lo steps 
leading down to 
the waters edge, 
recalling to mind 
the annual water 
carnival, when the 
river is illumin- 
ated by thousands 
of tiny lamps and 
"all Cranford "is 
pulhng an oar. 

The darkey 
over-estimated 
the hill, but he 
was right about 
the three miles; and a 
pleasant tramp it was. 
A yellow dog accom- 
panied me for about a 
mile, and we parted good 
friends when he met a lady 
of his ae(^uaintance. I was 
in Branch Mills before I 
knew it, and might never 
have known it but for an 
elderly party, who enquir- 
ed the time, and asked me 
if I was going "fishin'." 




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Ill 



"FISHIN"'— WITH A TRIl'OD. 



An hour had passed witlintit any sense of fati,u:ue, 
and a drink from tlie pump in a farm yard had 
allayed an incipient thirst, hut aroused a suspieion 
as to the (piality of their milk. 

Over the hriduf and along hy the mill-race 
hrought me in live minutes to Echo Lake, an 
ideal spot for the artist or the poet, the tisher- 
maii or the hotaiust ; surrounded hy a forest of 
stately trees and carrying along with its gentle 
ripples the fragrant odor of llowers and f< rns. 
The (lusty miller, hitching up his horses to a 
load of grain, hailed me with a cherry good day, 
and with a snule as broad as the lake itself, 
observed, "been fishin' I supiiose." 

Coining back to the main load I turned to the 
left and struck out for Springtield. The road 
was good and free from dust, and a springy bit 
of turf served as a sidewalk. Shady little lanes 
running otY on either side offered tempting in- 
ducements, but the Orange mountains loomed up 
ahead, and a premonition of hunger prom])ted 
me to push on. Half an hours walk bmught 
me to an oasis in the desert — the roadside; iim, 
shown in the jiicture ; note the seductive sign 
"bottle beer, ten cents." 

A couple of sandwitches, a bottle of the l)eer 
and a rest of fifteen minutes made a new man 
of me, and in an hour and a half after leaving 
Branch ]\Iills, I was in Springtield, a quaint little 
place with an old colonial church, a paper mill 
and other evidences of prosperity. I paused here 
awhile and made several inquiries of the natives 
— more for the sake of conversation than from 
any thirst for knowledge — and was surprised 



to fmd that no oni' made any reference; to 
" tishin'". Their minds, like ilic hills about 
them, were on a higher plane. Turning to llie 
left by th(! church— as the stage for Millburn 
had done, two minutes before — I coverecl Ihr 
mile and a half of pleasant couiilry road in abdut 
thirty mimUes. and reached Milllairn about om: 
o'clock, just three hours after leaving Cranfoni. 

To the bieyclisi, ]\Iillbin-n is familiar as a house- 
hold word. Ihre lie comes, day after day, not 
to seek the shady nooks, the secpiestered paths 
by the river side, or the narrow lanes where 
the cuckoo's song is heard, but to train him.self 
down to a skeleton in his aiunial elTori to win 
the " twenty-livi! mih; road race" winch is held 
here. A quiet pip(t by tiie edge of the stream, 
and a mcditaticm on the shortness of holidays 
occupied another hour, and I took the train for 
New York, reaching there about four o'clock. I 
had gone on the Central K.H. of IS'ew Jersey to 
Cranford (fare forty cents), walked a little over 
eight miles through some of thi' prettiest spots 
in Jersey, and returned liome on the Delaware, 
Lackawanna & Western, through the famous 
"Oranges" (fare fifty cents). Ninety cents for 
the trip. 

" IIo-Roken " shouted the brakeman, as the 
train rolled in to that famous summer resort, 
and as I reached the platform he observed : 

"Catch anything '! " 

" Any what '!" 

" Fish " said he, in evident disgust — and it 
dawned ujion me, for the first time, that Jersey 
had mistaken ni}' tripod stand for a fishing rod. 



ROCHELLE PARK AND PASSAIC. 
FIFTY CENTS. 

Take excursion ticket on New York, Suscpie- 
hanna & Western Rail- 
road to Passaic, fare / 
fifty cents. Leave the 
cars at llochelle Park 
and follow the east 
baidv of the river, 
southward to Lodi, 
then westward 
through Garfield to 
Passaic ; return on 
same Railroad to New 
Y'ork. Or take singli 
ticket to Roche lie 
Park, and return from 
Passaic by the Erie 
Railroad ; total cost, 
seventy cents. 



\ 




BERGENFIELDS AND CHESSKIUL. 
EIGHTY-FIVE CENTS. 

Take AVest t?hore Railroad to Bergeufields; fare 
- . forty cents. Walk to 

Schraalenburg, o n e 
mile, then turn to the 
right and walk to 
Cresskiil, alxnit two 
nules. through luauti 
fully wooded and un- 
dulating country, 
with fine view of 
the farming and pas- 
toral valley back of 
the Palisades Take 
Korthern Railroad of 
New Jersey from 
Cresskiil to New 
York; fare forty -five 
cents. 



112 



HILLS OF THE HACKENSACK. 



FIFTY CENTS. 



J\yi Y friend Van 
^^*^ DaulKT is 
au artist, who is 
always on the 
war path after 
"prettj' little 
bits," as he calls 
them, and when 
not engaged on 
a "pot-boiler" 
insists on drag- 



o n e of 



s k (' telling 



his 
ex- 
cursions. He 
took me on the 
cars of the New 
Jersey & New 
York Railroad 
to Hackensack, for a 
walk on the hills above 
that old fashioned ham- 
let. 

On the way. he ex- 
patiated in grand style 
on the many beauties of 
the meadows, 

the distance, the 

color effects, &c. 

The meadow^s 

certainly have a 

distinctive bean 

ty of their own; 

on each side of 

the t r a c k are 

miles of tall 

waving rushes 

and grasses, 

with here and 

there, bordering 
the little creeks, 
a patch of the 
gaudy ' ' Fleur 
de Lys;" here 
and there a clearing, and 
a tiny cabin with groups 
of barefooted children 
playing around, swarthy 
of complexion, and in 
bright and dirty and ab- 
breviated clothing ; un- 
mistakeably the offspring 
of the too numerous, 
ubiquitous Italian squat- 
ter. But don't, unless 
you are mosquito ]>roof, 
attempt any painting 




within or near the bord- 
ers of these marshes. 
I did it once. We pass- 
ed through several small 
villages, homes of the 
long suffering commu- 
ter, and after thirty 
minutes, landed in the 
pretty old Dutch settle- 
ment, at Anderson Street 
Station. Turning to the 
right, w^e cast a passing 
glance at the magniti- 
ceut avenue of 
elms, running 
nearly the whole 
length of Main 
Street, that 
gives you but a 
faint idea of the 
many beautiful 
corners of this 
quaint little 
place, with here 
and there an old 
stone mansion, 
o f ante-revolu- 
tionary date. 

Over Ander- 
son Street 
Bridge— a fairly 
ugly one, as 
bridges go — is the road 
to Englewood, a nicely 
shaded path that took us 
to the top of the hill, 
from which a grand 
panorama was unfolded, 
and the glorious 
landscape over 
the Hackensack 
valley tempted 
us to linger long 
in the conven- 
ient shade. A 
walk of about 
two m i 1 e s on 
the main road, 
brought u s t o 
Phelps Park, 
and following 
one of the pretty 
nari'ow drive- 
wa3's for a few 
minutes, we 
came in sight of 
the extensive 



HILLS OF THE HACKENSACK. 



113 



ruins of a former residence of the late Minister 
Phelps, which was destroyed by lire sonic years 
ago. They are beautifully covered witli ivy and 
■creepers, and are most picturesque. Visitors, ai- 
thouiih reciuested "not to touch," are welcome 
to stroll around. 

After a Tuorc or less faithful sketch of the 
ruins, we \\andered on througli the densely 
wooded park, and ahmit thirty nuiuites brought 
us to a rustic little school house, where we were 
;assailed by cries of "say. nuster, will you paint 
my picture?" Opposite to which, is anotlier ap 
parently endless wood, and a little glad(( tempted 
us to again open our boxes, but this time for 
lunch. 

After a rest and a quiet smoke, we took the 
road due east, for about a mile, leading to the 
isiunnut of a height from wliich the "kingdoms 



of the earth" seemed almost unfolded, embracing 
lull and dali', meadow, lieid and (lowered vale; 
tile eye could hardly measur<' or infold the rich 
and rare maze of form and c(jlor, linding rest 
in the frame of the mist -topped hills, fading into 
the far distant sky. 

W<' returned \\h'. same way that w(f came, with 
our |)orl folios consi<lerab]y richer, in spread out 
col(jr, anyhow, which, if Van Dauber can't sell 
as pictures, he i)hilosopliicall3' remarks, " dou't 
make such bad wall paper." 

Laying aside the artistic possibilities, from 
Van Dauber's jioint of view, of this little 
walk of seven or eight miles, I can truth- 
fully say that he is a grand good judge of 
the elements of a tirsl-class enjoyable "outing." 
Try it yourself, and get an idea of an artist's 
taste. 



PELHAM BATTLE GROUND. 



seyp:nty cents. 






CONTRIBUTKi:* BY M. 

y^NE of the most enjoyable trips within a 
^-^ radius of twenty miles from the City Hall, 
lies on a route starting at 139th Street station of 
the Harlem River Branch of the New York, New 

Haven & Hartford . _ ^ __ ^ 

R.K., transferring 
at Bartow Station 
to the horse-car 
for points in Pel- 
ham Park, and to 
City Island. The 
fare to Bartow is 
twenty-five cents; 
on the connecting 
line ten cents. 
Excursion Tickets 
for entire trip are 
issued on Sundays 
and Holidays, at ,-- 

<Jne Hundred and -^^■^^■^- - " 
Twenty- ninth 
Street Station, for six- 
ty cents. 

T h e impression o f 
the visitor on his first 
trip may best be de- 
scribed by the follow- 
ing description taken 
from the JS^ew York 
tSu?i : 

"A tiny horse-car 
waits at Bart o w to 




(illUiS l..\lIlUOF. 

convey travelers eastward through the Park and to 
City Island. Five minutes ride from the station is 
an oak grove on the left, hiding one of the most 
delightful spots in Peiham Park, a point of rock 

jutting well out into Pel- 
' ^ ■^l ham Bay and commanding 
a view of Hunters Island, 
of City Island, and of the 
whole breadth of the Sound. 
^Many-colored islets of rt)ck 
rise here and there from 
the water, and there is a 
constant procession of 
o-loritied sails far and near, 
while the faint pufling of 
distant steam - 
'! boats, followed 
' by the gentle roll 
and plash of tlieir 
far-sent waves, 
only helps to em- 
phasize the slum- 
berous pea ce of 
the sceni'. 

••There is a 
house of enter- 
tainment hard l)y, 
with boats to hire 
for fishing and 
sailing, but there 
are also sha d y 
lovers nooks 
ashore, whence 



Time-table information -Trams- Boats -Steamers-for SIX THOUSAND places is 
given m BULLINGEI^'S IWONITOR GUIDE. 



114 



PELHAM BATTLE GROUND. 



there may be seen as delifflitful evening effects 
across the water as the Bay of Naples has to 
show. 

"From this spot to the score of dining places 
on City Island is a quarter hours ride or more 
on the httle honse-car. City Island looks like a 
primitive Soutliern watering place strayed North, 
and a little slicked up to meet the recjuirenients 
of new patrons. It is all glitter of sun or w;iter 
and sand, with far horizons northward and great 




grassy salt meadows landward, glorious in green, 
and pinks, and sorrels. 

"There are long strolls to be had on a smooth, 
hard beach, a quaint Peggotty boatdiouse tavern, 
made from an ancient ship of war. and twenty 
places where you may have soft clams, liard 
clams, clam chowder, crabs, and all other edibles 
that come out of the water, along with whatever 
else a catholic taste may prompt one to esteem as 
proper accompaniments, liquid and solid." 



There are many points of great historical in- 
terest centered in this locality. It was along the 
old winding road which still serves as a thorough- 
fare tlu-ough Pelham Bay Park, that a brigade of 
Continental troops, consisting of about four hun- 
dred hardy New England fishermen commanded by 
Colonel Glover, in the autumn of '76 effectively 
disputed the advance of four Thousand British 
regulars under General Howe, when that General 
sought to interce])t the retreat of Wa.shington's 
army from Harlem to White Plains. 
Howe had landed his army at Pell's or 
Rodman's Neck in the town of Pelham 

J 

opposite City Island, and advanced along 
the Pelham highway toward Valentine's 
Hill. By a series of clever manoeuvres, 
Colonel Glover stationed liis men at ad- 
vantageous points along tlie British line 
of march, in four detachments, himself 
witli forty picked men lying in ambush 
behind a large rock (see picture) com- 
manding the roadway. When the ene- 
my's vanguard came abreast, the patriots 
charged upon them, drove tliem back to 
the main line and poured volley after vol- 
ley into the close ranks of the invaders, 
\N ho being disconcerted by this sudden 
and murderous onshaught, retreated in 
confusion, but soon rallied and charged 
the handful of defenders, who now 
fell back upon the next division. 

Eagerly the German Chasseurs, and 
the English Light Infantry and Grena- 
diers, unsuspecting any device, rushed 
in solid column along the narrow road, 
in hot haste to capture or bayonet the 
fleeing patriots, until on their right 
flank the third division of the Conti- 
nentals rose from behind the Avail and, 
with accurate and steady aim, poured 
in their fire at the close distance of 
thirty jards. 

Again the invading forces retreat- 
ed, and again formed and pressed on 
with extended lines. Once more they 
were met with the determined tire of 
the Continentals and held at bay until 
the American retreat was Avell cover- 
ed, and made to the fortified hills 
west of the Bronx, where Howe Avith 
his army dared not folloAv. It is said 
that the enemy's loss in killed and 
Avounded amounted to the relatively appalling 
aggregate of eight hundred men, or tAvice the 
entire number of Continentals engaged. 

After a fcAV minutes ride into the park you may 
enter a lane, through a pair of bars at the left, 
which leads you out through the grove of primi- 
tive oaks to the little peninsula called Pelham 
Neck, Avhieh Avas once the favorite haunt of the 
Great Minnieford tribe of Indians. Here they hol- 
loAved out two great mortars in the rocks for 



BULLINGER'S GUIDES are serviceable and profitable. 



115 



PELHAM BATTLE GROUND. 



found, at very reasonable rates ; and at City 
Island, one and a (jnarter miles Inini tiie station, 
sail boats ol all sizes can l»e procured, either 



r^' 



lirinding their corn ; aloni; the shore they built 
their camp-tires and held their councils, and on 
the ijrassy mound over-liiokini,^ the buy, they 
l)une(l tlieii- (lc,-id. A little to west- 
ward is a glacial lurrow, an interest- 
ing relic of tlu; pretertiary pei'iod. 
High among the bi'anclies of the 
towering oaks and chestnuts, the tish- 
liawk builds its rustic nest and rears 
its young, just above the splashing 
rollci's, beneath whose crests they 
plunge to bring their tinny prey — a 
well selected morsel — from the mil- 
lions that swarm in midiminishing 
nunibci-s in the quiet bay. 

Continuing down the Pelham high- 
way and across the old wooden draw- 
bridge which connects City Island 
with the main-land, the little horse- 
car conveys you along the samly level 
and through the village to the ex- 
treme scmthern point of the island. 
Here the grassy slopes meet the tide 
waves with a graceful curve — a min- 
iature Battery Park — wliere one can 
sit for hours and watch the full- 
sailed yachts tacking to their race 
course, and tlie pleasure steamers with 
their loads of fresh-air seekers lieaded for 
Glen Island, fast pursued by steam and 
naphtha launches — the bicj'cles of the sea. 

The distinctive feature of Pelliam Park 
is its beautiful shore line, making it en- 
tirely different from all of the City Parks. 
Its only disadvantage is the cost of 
reaching it. Aside from this, however, 
it has advantages of all kinds that make 
it a much more pleasurable Outing re- 
sort than any of the others. 

The opportunity for boating of all 
kinds is unrivalled; within a few 
minutes walk of Bartow Station an 
unlimited number of row^ boats to hire will l)e by the hour, or fully equipped for a criiise. 




VAN CORTLANDT AND MOUNT VERNON. 
THIRTY CENTS. 

Take west side Elevated Railroad to One 
Hundred and Fifty-tifth Street, and New York 
and Putnam Railroad to Van Cortlandt ; fare 
twenty cents. Walk northeast through Van Cort- 
landt Park, past or tlirough Woodlawn Cemetery 
and up the Bronx River to 3Iount Vernon; a])Out 
four miles. Trolley car from Mount Vernon to 
One Hundred and twenty-ninth Street and Thu-d 
Avenue; fare ten cents. 



PLEASURE BAY AND SEABRIGHT. 
FIFTY CENTS. 

Boat from New York to Pleasure Bay ; ex- 
cursion fare fifty cents. Walk from Pleasure Bay 
over to North Long Branch, and along the ocean 
beach, through Monmouth Beach, Galilee and Low- 
Moor to Seabright, about three miles. Take 
return boat from Seabright to New York in the 



COLLEGE POINT AND JAMAICA. 

FORTY CENTS. 

By ferrv from New York to College Point, fare 
ten cents.' Walk or take Trolley Cars to Flushing, 
about two miles, fare five cents. Walk through 
.Main Street, Flushing, and out through the quaint 
old farm settlements and occasional woods to- 
Jamaica; about four miles. Take Long Island 
Railroad to New York, fare twenty-five cents, or 
Trolley cars to P>rooklyn, fare ten cents. 



FAIRMOUNT AND CHERRY HILL. 
SIXTY-FIVE CENTS. 

Take New Jersev & New Yorl' R. R. and ex- 
cursion ticket to Cherry Hill, fare sixty-five cents. 
Get olf at Fairmount and walk through :>Iaiii 
Street and Spring Valley Avenue to Spring Valley 
road, thence to Cherry Hill, passing Van Sauns- 
Lake. This is a very pretty walk of about six 
miles through a finely wood('d and pastoral couu- 
Irv. Take cars at Cherrv Hill for New York 



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VAN CORTLANDT PARK. 



THIRTY-FIVE CENTS. 



CXCEPT for a few brief winter days, when 
"tlic ball is up," proclaiming that its frozen 
lake is open to skaters, Van Cortlanilt Park is 
as little thouijht or cared about as tlie elements 
of the sun ; perhaps hardly so much, for, while 
we seek the slender shade of Madison or Union 
Square, of Tompkins or Brj'ant Park — little 
"squares" on the checkerboard of the great 
city — that awful sun pours its raj'S upon us, and 




we long for the rest and coolness of the night. 
Yet, within an hours ride of the Battery, where 
the bustle and tumult of the city reach it not, 
stands Van Cortlandt Park, fit for the life and 
lungs of the great New York ; nature's school- 
room ; a storehouse filled with historical lore ; a 
thing of beauty and a joy forever. 

There is no journey v.hich, from the begin- 
ning to the end, presents such a combination 
of pleasing effects as the ride to Van Cort- 



landt. The trip on the elevated railroads, from 
the lower West Side to One Hundred and Fifty- 
fifth Street, affords a panoramic view of the city 
to be had from no other point, and to the mind 
freed from the cares of work, offers an interesting 
study of the magnitude and growth of the city, 
such as no statistics can convey. 

At One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Street and 
Eighth Avenue we transfer to the New York 
& Putnam Railway, cross the Harlem 
-. , piivei-^ ;|iid traverse its eastern bank for 
al)out four miles, where it takes a sharp 
turn to the right and loses itself in the 
mighty Hudson. 

The scenery along these upper reaches 
of the Harlem, as we pass through High 
Bridge, Morris Heights and University 
Heights (heights in fact as well as in 
name) is matchless in its mantle of verdant 
hues. On a bluff, overlooking the river, 
stands the University of the City of New 
York, and the view from this point has 
been aplly described in the following 
■ds : 

It looks westward upon the scene 
the battle of Fort AVashington ; be- 
yond, the Hudson is in view, with 
the Palisades in the background; in 
the front is Inwood, with the new 
Harlem Ship Canal two hundred 
feet below. To the north is Spuy- 
ten Duj'vil. The new speedway 
is in plain sight, and to the thou- 
sands of New Yorkers who will 
soon frequent that drive, no build- 
ing will be more imiiressive." 

A few minutes more and we are 
at Van Cortlandt Station, within 
the boundaries of the park and less 
than a stones throw from some of 
its chief attractions. 

We regard with far too little 
veneration those stirring events of 
a century and a quarter ago, " the time that tried 
men's souls," when heroes were moulded out of 
"common clay"; when liberty was gained and 
freedom won. Yet, to the deeds enacted on this 
hallowed ground we are indebted for our presence 
here to-day. 

The quaint and curious stone mansion, built 
as a residence for the Van Cortlandts, In 1748, 
stands near the southern entrance to the park. 
Here Washington came, in 1781, and on the shores 



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117 



VAN CORTI.AXDT PARK. 



of the lake, when" ^vc can pass so many pleas- 
ant hours to-day, the soldiers of his army liov- 
ercd around their eamp tires, throu.yh tiic silent 
watches of the nis-ht. A.uain he made his iiead- 
quiu-ters in this very house, and it was from 
liere, on the ioth of November, 1TS:{, lie en- 
tered the City of New York with Ins stalf, as 
the last remnant of the llrilish army 
left it, at the Battery. 

The old null, standin.ii' hut a few- 
yards from Van Cortlandt Station, 
has a history of its own. It esjxiused 
no eause, save that of hunii'er. It 
iiround the flour for friend and foe 
alike. It has known no enemy hut 
the hand of time, and we should see 
it ere it (!rund)k's, like ourselves, into 
dust. 

Seated beneath the line old ehesl- 
nuts, j)lanted over a hundred years 
ayo, which surround the mansion like 
a miniature park, we can watch the 
evolutions of our citizen-soldiers on the 
niaii:nilicent parade ground, which 
spreads out iu front of ns — tiat as a 
billiard table, covering one hundred 
and twenty acres, and admirably 
adapted to .such a purpose — and reflect 
that we are upon the very spot where 
Washington reviewed las troops, so 
many years ago. 

Stretching away to the north, and 
standing like a sentinel o'er the valley 
at its feet, is Vault Hill. A few 
little mounds, surrounded by a low 
stone fence, proclaim it the last rest- 
ing place of some tired travelers on 
life's journey ; and in the calm seclu- 
sion of its grateful shade we can 
pause for a while and survey the 
landsca))e 

The tiny Mosholu creeps along 
through the woods on f)ur right, 
while to the vve.st the ever majestic 
Palisades are outlined on the hori- 
zon. Everywhere is peace and hap- 
piness. From liere we can wander 
on northward through the valle\-, 
unchecked by aught except the desire 
to linger on the way, until we reach 
the outskirts of Yonkers. The lake is an endless 
source of pleasure. Its upper end, hid<leu in the 
woods, takes us where solitude reigns .supreme, 
while to the south, a inagnitleent sheet of water 
tempts us to try our skill with the oar or our luck 
with a lishing pole. But there is an end to all 
things, and, all too soon, our reluctant feet must 
turn towards home. The little station of ]\Iosholu 



is but half a mile on our left. A Avinding road 
to the east lakes us, in half an houi", to Wood- 
lawii, on the Harlem liailroad. But if time al- 
lows, the walk of a nnle down the Mosholu 
Parkway to Bedford Station — a ciiarming boule- 
vard, connecting \'an Cortlandt with the IJronx 
— will e.ause us to retlecl that our puiiiic works 




may sometimes be also public pleasiues anil 
benedictions. 

The excursion fare from One Hundred and 
Fifty-tilth Street to Van Cortlandt Park is 
tweidy cents ; the fare one way, is lifteen cents, 
and to return via Bedford Park is twenty 
cents; a total cost of twenty-tive to thirty-tive 
cents. 



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what a help for Shippers. 



118 



ALONG THE BRONX. 



TWENTY CENTS. 



stood. 



4 k A ND long bj' the garden lake I .' 
For I heard your rivulet fall 
From the lake to the meadow aud on 

to the wood, 
Our wood, that is dearer than all," 




Photos, from New York Camera Excliange, 41 Fulton Street, 



So w^rote Tennyson ; he was a poet, and poets 
live in the woods ; they breathe an atmosphere 
of forests and flowers. They have nothing to 
do but hide in the woods and write of the sky, 
and the birds and fields. Tlu-y know nothing 
of the busy, work-a-day world. 
"Our fields are vaeant city lots; 
Our woods are benches hard ; 
Our mountain tops are chimney pots, 
Our ozone comes from the yard." 
Tlii.-; is the refrain of the cit}" man's 
thoughts, as he struggles along through 
a hot summer da}% with nothing but 
the soda fountain as a substitute for 
the 'rivulet' of the poet's dream. 
Yet the stream flows at our do<ir. 
The hills and valleys, tlie woods and 
fields may be Iiad for the asking ; 
but we never ask. We 
sit up among the chim- 
ney pots and listen to 
the r h y t h m i c glang- 
glangle of the car gongs, 
and the more or less 
euphonious cries of the 
huckster, unconscious of 
a paradise almost at our 
hand. 

" It would be diffi- 
cult, aud probably im- 
possible, in the State of 
New York to find, with- 
in an equal space, a tract 
of such rare beauty, ri- 
valing, if not in broad 
expanded views, cer- 
tainly in picturesque 
loveliness, some of the 
most romantic scenes in 
the Adirondack region. 
Though less than half 
an hours drive from 
the Harlem River, there 
aie few in the City of 
New York Avho are aware of its rare 
cbarms of scenery. That such a spot 
should exist in its original state, in 
its native wildness, so near the set- 
tled portion of the city and yet al- 
most wholly unknown, and unsus- 
pected, may well awaken sur]irise." 
Thus it has been written of the 
Bronx. 

A City Park, bought by us, and 
held for our use and benefit, for us 
iind our heirs, forever. There is no 



19 



ALONG TllK liROXX. 



'breathing space' so easy of access from the eity, 
nor one from '.vliicli we arc so loth to ])art, 
when once we have I'ouml it. We can lead a 
horse to the river hank luit we eaiiiiol make liiiii 
drink ; and lliough we eaii uuidc and tcmjit dur 
readers to tiiese p]lysian fields — is tlie pen potent 
to persuade them ? 

The Park is from one-half to three-ciuarlers of 
a mile wide, and two miles long, the river run 
ning through the centre, for its entire length. 

Of the many ways of reaching 
the Park, jicrliai^s that by the street 
cars is the t'asiest and most desir 
al)le. At One Hundred and Twenty 
ninth Street and Third Avenue, or 
at One Hundred and Thirty-eighth 
Street and Eighth Avenue, a line 
of trolley cars starts h)r West Farms, 
and this we should take to its ter 
minus. It runs along upper Third 
Avenue for awhile, then branches 
off to the east along the old Bos- 
ton Post Koad, passing Crotona 
Park, of which we know as little 
as of the Bronx, and reaelu'S West 
Farms in about half an hour. Walk- 
ing a few yards up the Boston Hoad, 
we pass the ice-house by the river 
side, and the little boat-house with 
its tiny boats, and impercei)tably the 
woods close round us ; we hear the 
song of the birds o'er head — we are 
in the Park. 

HidcU'n away, somewhere, in that 
mysterious thing, the mind, is an 
innate love of the beautiful, and 
those who fail to tiud it here are 
"men who can hear the decalogue 
and feel no self-reproach." 

Poets have sung the glories ol 
the Bronx ; liistorians praised it in 
a sterner Avay ; the birds are sing 
ing it all day long, and w^e should 
enjoy it while we may. At every 
stei) we tind some point of inter- 
est. A little to our left, where a 
line of boulders points the way, we 
come to one of nature's most curi- 
ous freaks. Standing on a Hat. 
smooth rock, and so balanced that 
witli an ellort we can sway it to 
and fro, is a huge boulder, weigh- 
ing over a hundred tons; carried 
there ages ago, by some mighty, 
moving field of ice, and left for us, 
as a souvenir. A little beyond, at a 
the river, where the roadwa}^ si)ans 
rustic bridge, a foaming ca.scade comes 
down, split here and there by i)rojeeting rocks. 
A roaring torrent in early spring, but now, a 
plaything for the sweet suns rays to glisten on. 



Within the sound of tlu! splashing .'Stream, the 
Hermit of the woods has built his cave. Back 
from the river, by the sid<' of a hill, his castle 
of twigs and hniiiches sl.ands. Like a gnome of 
the forests in fairy lore, he hoveis about these 
silent woods, free to roam wherever he will, and 
sharing at night his lowly couch with such of 
the insect world as choo.se to visit him. And 
here is "DeLaney's Ancient Pine," a giant of 
the forest, towering one hundred and fifty feet 




bend in 
it l)y a 
tumbling 



above us— centuries old and just as the great 
Creator framed it. 

Wandering on. we pass tin- IVlham Koad, which 
crosses the Park from east to west, and the 
river is now our chief delight. Every leaf and 
bough is ri-liected in it , the birds sing sweeter 



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ALONG THE BRONX. 



songs down here ; the fisU rise to look at lis ; 
the garden of Eden is reached at last. Beyond, 
the stream grows narrower, and rocks jut up 
on either side ; the woods are denser hereabouts, 
and a scene of grandeur is unfolded, the more 
impressive because so entirely unexpected. 

A little ahead of us is the gorge, reached by 
a flight of natural steps, worn in tlie rocks by 
the Indians, maybe, and crossed by a little 
wooden bridge. The river is rushing along at 
our feet, churned into foam on its stony bed, 
over a lilliputian fall and on to its final goal, 
the Sound. Nortiiward, it winds through a quiet 
glade and is lost in a labyrinth of trees and 
shrubs. Up on the heights, on the eastern bank, 
is the old Lorillard mansion, set in a beautiful 
modern park, a monument to the wisdom and 
taste of its owner who chose such an ideal 
spot for a home. 

On either hand are shady paths, leading us 
on for a mile or more. We meet the botanist 
with his glass and box, and a book for pres- 
sing his specimens in ; he tells us the names 



of the tiny flowers and makes us feel like a. 
child again. A road runs out due west, from 
the gorge, not five minutes walk to Bedford Park 
Station on the Harlem Railroad, from which we' 
can reach the Grand Central in twenty minutes. 
A mile above, at the head of the park, is Williams 
Bridge, while lower down, about half a mile 
west on the Pelham Road is Fordham ; West 
Farms is south, where we entered, and a little 
way east, Van Nest. 

Let us cry no more about dust and heat, but 
take our wives and little ones, have a basket 
filled for a hearty meal, and spend a day by 
the Bronx. 

The entire cost of transportation for this trip 
need not exceed ten cents, if the Trolley cars 
are used to and from West Farms. The excur- 
sion fare from the Grand Central Station to- 
Bedford Park is twentj'-flve cents ; and the fare- 
from Van Nest Station on the Harlem River 
Branch of the New York, New Haven & Hart- 
ford Railroad, is fifteen cents. 



PATERSON AND LITTLE FALLS. 
ONK DOLLAR and TEN CENTS. 

Take New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad 
to Paterson ; fare fifty cents. Visit the Passaic 
Falls, and walk up the 
Passaic River to Little 
Falls ; about five miles. 
Take the Delaware, 
Lackawanna & West- 
ern Railroad, or New 
York & Greenwood 
Lake Railway to New 
York; fare sixty cents. 




ENGLEWOOD AND 
CO YTESVILLE. 

SS CENTS. 

Take Northern Rail- 
road of New Jersey to 
E ngle wood , fare thirty - 
five cents; then walk 
due east for about two 
miles, over very pleas- 
ant country roads and historical ground, to top of 
the Palisades ; then continue south for about two 



and one-half miles along the bluffs to Coytesville. 
Take Palisades Railroad from Coytesville to New 
York, via Fort Lee and Weehawken; fare twenty 

a 

cents. 

KINGS BRIDGE 

AND 
FORT GEORGE. 

20 CENTS. 

Take west side Ele- 
vated Railroad to One 
Hundred and Fifty- 
fifth Street, and New 
York & Putnam Rail- 
road to Kings Bridge ; 
tare fifteen cents. Cross 
the Harlem River and 
walk along the west 
bank to Fort George, 
about two miles ; a 
charming and pictur- 
esque walk. Return 
by Cable cars from 
Fort George, via One 
Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street and Third Ave- 
nue ; fare ten cents. 



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